Communist Quotes - Page 24

• I must say that the tasks of the youth in general, and of the Young Communist Leagues and all other organisations in particular, might be summed up in a single word: learn.

  Vladimir Lenin

  League, Tasks, Might

  V. I. Lenin (2008). “Lenin on Literature and Art”, p.126, Wildside Press LLC

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• Give money to universities — that would be asking for trouble. All those places do is turn out more Communists.

  Lang Hancock

  Giving, Would Be, Asking

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• Look, America is no more a democracy than Russia is a Communist state. The governments of the U.S. and Russia are practically the same. There's only a difference of degree. We both have the same basic form of government: economic totalitarianism. In other words, the settlement to all questions, the solutions to all issues are determined not by what will make the people most healthy and happy in their bodies and their minds but by economics. Dollars or rubles.

  Tom Robbins

  Russia, Government, Differences

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Another Roadside Attraction”, p.43, Bantam

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• But my knowledge of Marxism was limited to knowing that Marx was a Jew, and that he had a long white beard. I said to Lunatcharsky (the political communist commissar for Education, 1918, fh) 'Whatever you do, don't ask me why I painted in blue or green, and why you can see a calf inside the cow's belly, etc. On the other hand you're welcome: if Marx is so wise, let him come back to life and explain it himself'. I showed him my canvases.

  Marc Chagall

  Wise, Hands, White

  "Marc Chagall - the Russian years 1906 - 1922". Book by Christoph Vitali, p. 34, 1991.

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• In contrast to the asexual chasteness of official communist art , Nazi art is both prurient and idealizing. A utopian aesthetics (physical perfection; identity as a biological given) implies an ideal eroticism: sexuality converted into the magnetism of leaders and the joy of followers. The fascist ideal is to transform sexual energy into a "spiritual" force, for the benefit of the community.

  Susan Sontag

  Spiritual, Art, Perfection

  Susan Sontag (1983). “A Susan Sontag reader”, Vintage

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• Simon Wiesenthal told me that any political party in a democracy that uses the word 'freedom' in its name is either Nazi or Communist.

  Simon Wiesenthal

  Party, Names, Political

  "Balkan Ghost". Book by Robert D. Kaplan, 1993.

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• I'm not very impressed by people who yell "traitor" and "communist" and other less printable things. I don't like it.

  Christopher Hitchens

  People, Traitor, Impressed

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Call me communist, but I think that's something that everyone, regardless of their family's income, has a right to, and I was fortunate enough to have a mother who felt that way as well.

  Liev Schreiber

  Mother, Thinking, Income

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The Communist threat from without must not blind us to the Communist threat from within. The latter is reaching into the very heart of America through its espionage agents and a cunning, defiant, and lawless communist party, which is fanatically dedicated to the Marxist cause of world enslavement and destruction of the foundations of our republic.

  J. Edgar Hoover

  Party, Heart, America

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• There are no habits of man more alien to the doctrine of the Communist than those of the collector

  Augustine Birrell

  Men, Doctrine, Aliens

  Augustine Birrell (1922). “The collected essays & addresses of the Rt. Hon. Augustine Birrell, 1880-1920 ...”

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• It would be quite wrong to hold the Soviet government responsible for the activities of American Communists.

  J. Stalin

  Government, Would Be, Responsible

  Source: www.marxists.org

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• Don't believe Wikipedia, not everything written there is true. The Soviet Artists Union was not a communist party organization. It was a professional union, which did not protect you from the government if the government decided you were the enemy, but it did give you the possibility to work in your profession and survive.

  Ilya Kabakov

  Party, Believe, Artist

  "INTERVIEW: Monumenta 2014 Artists Ilya And Emilia Kabakov". Interview with Douglas MacKaye Harrington, www.hamptons.com.

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• We first became conscious of the plane publicly on a Monday. I thought then by the weekend it would be done. But then the Chinese military, the defense minister made a statement saying that if there was no apology from the United States, the Chinese military and the Chinese people would never understand. No reference to the government or the Communist Party, and that obviously presented an internal problem to the Chinese leadership, which was travelling at that moment.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Monday, Military, Party

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The China of the 1970s was a communist dictatorship. The China of the twenty-first century is a one-party state without a firm ideological foundation, more similar to Mexico under the PRI than Russia under Stalin. But the measurement of the political and the economic evolution has not yet been completed, and is one of the weak points of the system.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Party, Russia, Political

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I don't consider China a communist state, no. I know that sounds paradoxical, but it's my view.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Views, Sound, States

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Certainly not a party of the workers and the peasants. In fact, Jiang Zemin in recent weeks has officially said that capitalists and the entrepreneurs should be enrolled in the Communist Party.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Party, Entrepreneur, Facts

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I do not know what will happen in China politically. I do know that it is impossible to maintain the communist system or probably even a strict one-party system when the economy becomes so pluralistic. Now, what form that takes and what institutions will evolve, I do not have a clear view about. I do not think the United States, as a general principle, ought to intervene in this.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Party, Thinking, Views

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The members of our secret service have apparently spent so much time under the bed looking for communists that they haven't had the time to look in the bed.

  Michael Foot

  Secret, Bed, Looks

  Michael Foot's remarks on the Profumo Scandal, 1963.

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• Obama is a radical communist and I think it is becoming clear. That is what I told people in Illinois and now everybody realizes it is coming true. He is going to destroy this country and we are either going to stop him or the United States of America is going to cease to exist.

  Alan Keyes

  Country, Thinking, America

  "Alan Keyes: Doing What He Does Best" by Kyle Mantyla, www.rightwingwatch.org. February 20, 2009.

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• The democratic world has come to a dead end; likewise, the communist world has come to a dead end. But the Unification Church is just beginning!

  Sun Myung Moon

  Unification Church, World, Dead Ends

  "Creation Of The Fatherland". Reverend Sun Myung Moon's remarks at World Mission Center (as translated by Bo Hi Pak), www.tparents.org. January 1, 1984.

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• This time we'll hate, alright - but we'll hate the enemy - the vicious gang of colored scum attackers and Jewish-Communist traitors - rather than one part of our own people hating another part for the benefit of the Jews and their army of scum!

  George Lincoln Rockwell

  Hate, Army, People

  "White Self-Hate: Master-Stroke Of The Enemy". Book by George Lincoln Rockwell, archive.org. 1967.

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• Deng Xiaoping thought of himself as a great revolutionary and a great reformer. He had dismantled the Chinese communist management of the economy. In my next-to-last conversation with him, which was about six months before Tiananmen Square, he said to me that his aim would be the next phase to reduce the Communist Party to philosophical issues. And I said, "What's a philosophical issue?" And he said, "Well, like if we make an alliance with Russia." Given his view of Russia, that was not the likeliest thing that would ever happen.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Philosophical, Party, Views

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The Communist Party of China should represent the development trends of advanced productive forces, the orientations of an advanced culture and the fundamental interests of the overwhelming majority of the people of China.

  Jiang Zemin

  Party, People, Majority

  "The Three Represents". CPC Theory credited to Jiang Zemin, February 25, 2000.

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• Communism, my friend, is more than Marxism, just as Catholicism is more than the Roman Curia. There is a mystique as well as a politick. Catholics and Communists have committed great crimes, but at least they have not stood aside, like an established society, and been indifferent. I would rather have blood on my hands than water like Pilate.

  Graham Greene

  Blood, Hands, Water

  The Comedians pt. 3, ch. 4 (1966)

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• The National Liberation Front was not...a viable, autonomous organization with a life of its own; it was a facade, a "front," by means of which the DLD (the North Vietnamese Communist Party) sought to mobilize the people in the South to accomplish its ends, and to garner international sympathy and support.

  George Allen

  War, Party, Mean

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