Communist Quotes - Page 27

• 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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• It is apparent that Christianity and Islam must come, and come immediately, to a closer understanding, and it is equally apparent that their unity if achieved, will be the most effective defensive measure against Communist expansion.

  Aly Khan

  Understanding, Unity, Islam

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• From a will: And to my communist nephew Oswald, I leave the sum of 10,000 pounds - to be shared equally with his fellow Britishers.

  John Carpenter

  Nephew, Pounds, Fellows

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• I was in the most restricted prison in China, the most tough. The design of the prison is modeled for internal crimes of the Communist party, so it's like a mafia family's law. It's independent to the law this nation openly applies. It's the place they take you before they give you over to the judicial system. You stay there for a year or two and they make you really suffer to confess everything.

  Ai Weiwei

  Party, Independent, Years

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Communism wasn't a word that I thought of when I went to Cuba. The original Fidelistas were not Communists. They were graduate students at the university and law students. After the Fidelistas took over, they went to Washington and tried to get support from the U.S. government, which turned them down. They were in a desperate political and economic situation, so they took the offer from the Soviet Union. Communism was a matter of necessity.

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti

  Government, Law, Political

  Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 1, 2012.

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• Walesa was a national hero, a true icon. The vast majority of Poles didn't believe a word the authorities said. They took everything the official media said about Walesa to be a manipulation by the Communist authorities.

  Slawomir Cenckiewicz

  Believe, Hero, Media

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• When I made Spartacus during the McCarthy Era, we were losing our freedom. It was an awful, awful way. McCarthy saw Communists everywhere, in every level of government and they concentrated on Hollywood and especially on Hollywood writers.

  Kirk Douglas

  Government, Hollywood, Levels

  "EXCLUSIVE: Kirk Douglas Reflects on an Amazing Career". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. December 8, 2008.

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• Anti-Semitism is best understood as a virus. It has no logic. Jews were hated because they were rich and because they were poor; because they were capitalists and because they were communists; because they held tenaciously to an ancient faith and because they were rootless cosmopolitans, believing nothing. Hate needs no logic. It is a sickness of the soul.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Hate, Believe, Soul

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• The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They open declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. WORKING MEN OF ALL COUNTRIES, UNITE!

  Karl Marx

  Country, Winning, Men

  BookCaps, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (2012). “The Communist Manifesto in Plain and Simple English”, p.130, BookCaps Study Guides

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• You know, a Communist's whole life work is based on complaint of how everything is done.... So if they ever get their country running good they will defeat their own cause.

  Will Rogers

  Country, Running, Causes

  Will Rogers (1927). “There's Not a Bathing Suit in Russia: & Other Bare Facts”, New York, A. & C. Boni

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• Mr. Gorbachev initiated Glasnost, Perestroika, so he was already, you know, way disenchanted with the rigid Communist ideology, and he was looking to become an international leader. He was more accepted actually outside of the Communist Soviet Union than inside.

  Deepak Chopra

  Leader, Unions, Way

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. May 27, 2015.

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• The governments and the communist parties in Vietnam and China are doing their best to develop their local economies. But the rise of countries in Asia is not in opposition to development and affluence in Western nations. It is a mutually beneficial development. The interests of Western investors are protected in our country. Both we and the West benefit from this in equal measure.

  Nguyen Minh Triet

  Country, Party, Government

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Money, as a sort of drug, has become a great danger to our development. There will be no progress in our country unless we win the fight against corruption. This is a question of survival for the Communist Party of Vietnam and for socialism.

  Nguyen Minh Triet

  Country, Party, Fighting

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• In the Communist Party, we address problems very openly and sometimes very vocally, and we point out abuses. This is a good thing. We exercise self-criticism once a year. Although 80 percent of the members of the National Assembly are also members of the Communist Party, this does not prevent them from sharply criticizing the administrative and governmental system.

  Nguyen Minh Triet

  Party, Exercise, Self

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Unfortunately the niveau of political culture is not particularly high in Poland - a relic of the communist past.

  Wladyslaw Bartoszewski

  Past, Political, Culture

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Finally, a prominent nation is taking on the homosexual agenda and rejecting it outright. A number of African nations have done the same, but third-world countries are not newsworthy to mainstream media. The irony is stunning that a Communist nation would understand that preserving the value of men and women marrying and producing children makes for demographic survival, while many American Christian leaders cower in the shadows, in fear of activist homosexuals and their leftist supporters. I say 'cheers' to the Russians on this one. That nation will probably outlive America.

  Sylvia Thompson

  Christian, Country, Cheer

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• First, there was Confucius. Then, the sayings of Chairman Mao. And now the pithy, ironic, and humorous insights of Ai Weiwei. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this collection, which reflects a well-developed philosophy as well as a keen understanding of the Chinese Communist system. This is China made easy and interesting.

  Jerome A. Cohen

  Philosophy, Reading, Humorous

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• You know who has tenure? The pope has tenure. The Queen of England has tenure. So does Fidel and the communists - because they represent the people, of course (scoff). Federal judges have tenure as well - no federal judge has ever successfully been removed. And then there's the college professors. Me. How do you like that?

  Ira Carmen

  Queens, College, Judging

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• Only one more indispensable massacre of Capitalists or Communists or Fascists or Christians or Heretics, and there we are in the Golden Future.

  Aldous Huxley

  Christian, Golden, Massacres

  Aldous Huxley (1953). “The collected works of Aldous Huxley”

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• The most effective method of propaganda directed at the enemy forces is to release captured soldiers and give the wounded medical treatment... Whenever soldiers of enemy forces are captured, we immediately conduct propaganda among them...This immediately knocks the bottom out of the enemy's slander that the Communist bandits kill everyone on sight.

  Mao Zedong

  Sight, Giving, Soldier

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• If democracy is destroyed in Britain, it will be not the communists, Trotskyists or subversives but this House which threw it away. The rights that are entrusted to us are not for us to give away. Even if I agree with everything that is proposed, I cannot hand away powers lent to me for five years by the people of Chesterfield. I just could not do it. It would be theft of public rights.

  Tony Benn

  Rights, Hands, Years

  Tony Benn's Speech in House of Commons during a debate on the Treaty of Maastricht, hansard.millbanksystems.com. November 20, 1991.

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• His Holiness Pope John Paul II was a determined and deeply spiritual minded person for whom I had great respect and admiration. His experience in Poland, then a communist country, and my own difficulties with communists, gave us an immediate common ground

  Dalai Lama

  Spiritual, Country, Holiness

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• Of course, I do not believe in having everyone who is a liberal called a communist, or everyone who is conservative called a fascist.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Believe, Conservative, Fascists

  Eleanor Roosevelt, Allida M. Black (2009). “The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers: The Human Rights Years, 1945-1948”

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• Whether we call ourselves communists or capitalists, Hindus or Buddhists, Moslems or Christians, whether we are blind, lame, well or happy, this earth is ours...not somebody else's...it is not only the rich man's earth, but our earth...yours and mine.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Christian, Buddhist, Men

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• I said, "Suppose communists come out against cancer, do we have to automatically come out for cancer?'" I can't take back that I'm against the poll tax, that I'm against lynching, that I'm for peace.

  Studs Terkel

  Cancer, Lynching, Polls

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