Communist Quotes - Page 8

• Communists have no respect for people, only for positions.

  E. L. Doctorow

  People, No Respect, Position

  E.L. Doctorow (2010). “The Book of Daniel: A Novel”, p.203, Random House

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• Well, It's a Communist country, and the Communists do not reward personal initiative...except by execution.

  Tom Clancy

  Country, Politics, Rewards

  Tom Clancy, Martin Greenberg (2000). “Tom Clancy SSN”, p.265, Penguin

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• I believe employers should be aware that employees who earn under $10 an hour cannot lead an independent life. But I do not believe that government should dictate wages. We have seen this fail in Socialist and Communist countries. It will do irreparable harm.

  Richard Riordan

  Country, Believe, Independent

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• Please remember one lesson of the 20th century. One cannot force happiness, impose happiness on nations by imposing any kind of utopia on others. The Communist model of society was a kind of imposed utopia for which the Russian people in particular paid a great price. Still, sometimes we see that attempts are being made to impose some other kind of model on the entire world - maybe a Westernized or Americanized model... This is not the way to go because this can only create conflict.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  People, World, Lessons

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• Dalton Trumbo was constantly criticizing the membership [in the Communist Party], and was opposite to being a loyalist.

  Jay Roach

  Party, Opposites, Loyalists

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• Because I was single, there was a chance I was a homosexual. Because I went to Syracuse, wherever that was, then I was probably a Communist. Or worse, a Liberal. Because I was from Memphis, I was a subversive intent on embarrassing Ford County.

  John Grisham

  Memphis, Chance, Embarrassing

  John Grisham (2004). “The Last Juror”, Doubleday Books

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• Democracy's my idea. I do not agree with communists, my acts prove. Free press in Cuba - free ideas, freedom religion belief.

  Fidel Castro

  Ideas, Democracy, Cuba

  "Former Cuban Leader Fidel Castro Dies At Age 90" by Tom Gjelten, northernpublicradio.org. November 26, 2016.

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• Dalton Trumbo actually was [ a hypocrite], because he liked his wealth, which was against the grain of being a Communist. I put title cards at the head of the film that explains the context.

  Jay Roach

  Hypocrite, Titles, Cards

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• Even illegal weapons have lost their panache. Zip guns and shanks were at least homemade. Where is the craft in a grade-schooler firing a magnum? What is the world coming to? It's not even bad to be a communist anymore!

  John Waters

  Gun, Zips, World

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• But, you will say, we destroy the most hallowed of relations, when we replace home education by social.... The Communists have not invented the intervention of society in education; they do but seek to alter the character of that intervention, and to rescue education from the influence of the ruling class.

  Karl Marx

  Home, Character, Class

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1973). “Karl Marx on Society and Social Change: With Selections by Friedrich Engels”, p.63, University of Chicago Press

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• Now that we are rid of this syndrome of imposing the communist model on people, now that we've given them the chance to get rid of this dogma, I have to tell you Americans that you've been pushing your American way of life for decades. You thought it was perfection itself, the ultimate achievement of human thought... There has to be a different approach... Americans have to be more modest in their desires. We have to stimulate human qualities in people rather than greed.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Perfection, People, Greed

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• Distributed intelligence is the key to the advancement of human civilization. Dictatorships, communist countries, monarchies in the past all eventually collapsed because of their inefficiency in moving information.

  Al Gore

  Country, Moving, Past

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• Reagan survived the Iran-Contra scandal because the elements of it that were illegal (aiding anti-communist Nicaraguans) were popular and the things that were unpopular (arming the Iranians) were quite legal.

  David Frum

  War, Iran, Elements

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• The International Brigade was not formed to protect freedom and democracy. It was founded as a tool of of the Comintern, to promote the interests of the Soviet Union - and thereby of Joseph Stalin, the butcher of millions. It made political sense for the International Brigade to recruit non-communists - useful fools was what Lenin had called such people in an earlier manipulation of gullible decency - but of course most were then vetted by the NKVD, the Soviet Union's secret police.

  Kevin Myers

  War, People, Political

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• My parents called themselves progressives. The agenda was a Soviet America...the slogan of the communist party in those days was peace, jobs, democracy. Sound familar? The communist party is the democratic Party.

  David Horowitz

  Jobs, Party, America

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• [Dalton] Trumbo himself was a terrible Communist.

  Jay Roach

  Terrible

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• The Communist torturers often said, 'There is no God, no hereafter, no punishment for evil. We can do what we wish.' I have heard one torturer even say, 'I thank God, in whom I don't believe, that I have lived to this hour when I can express all the evil in my heart.' He expressed it in unbelievable brutality and torture inflected on prisoners.

  Richard Wurmbrand

  Believe, Heart, Punishment

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• There seemed to be nothing in Mao that might be called religious feeling; his judgments were reached, I believe, on the basis of reason and necessity. Because of this I think he has probably on the whole been a moderating influence in the Communist movement where life and death are concerned.

  Edgar Snow

  Religious, Believe, Thinking

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• The way even movements change is stunning: Chinese communist capitalists? Evangelicals deciding to be nice to gay people?

  Frank Schaeffer

  Nice, Gay, People

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• The Chinese traditionally have revered age and longevity - I have one and hope for the other! - so, in Taipei, a city-hub for global Chinese who dis-identify with the People's Republic of China's construction of a Communist nationalist Chineseness, I called on the Chinese muse of writing to witness my emergence out of the academic woods.

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  Writing, Cities, People

  "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

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• My family left Afghanistan in 1976, well before the Communist coup and the Soviet invasion. We certainly thought we would be going back. But when we saw those Soviet tanks rolling into Afghanistan, the prospect for return looked very dim. Few of us, I have to say, envisioned that nearly a quarter century of bloodletting would follow.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Tanks, Rolling, Would Be

  Interview with Razeshta Sethna, newslinemagazine.com. November, 2003.

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• A great deal of the pupils time was spent going through, once again, the History of the Communist (Bolshevik) Party of the Soviet Union. He had learnt it at elementary school; at secondary school; at his sports club; at the Komsomol; at the university; at a folk dancing course; at the chess-club.

  George Mikes

  Funny, Sports, Humorous

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• Socialism is undoubtedly in the throes of a crisis greater than at any time since 1917. The last half of 1989 saw the dramatic collapse of most of the communist party governments of Eastern Europe.

  Joe Slovo

  Party, Government, Europe

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• No true Latter-day Saint and no true American can be a socialist or a communist or support programs leading in that direction. These evil philosophies are incompatible with Mormonism, the true gospel of Jesus Christ.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Jesus, Philosophy, Evil

  Ezra Taft Benson (1964). “Title of liberty”

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• We must ever keep in mind that collectivized socialism is part of the communist strategy. Communism is fundamentally socialism. We will never win our fight against communism by making concessions to socialism.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Fighting, Winning, Mind

  Ezra Taft Benson (1974). “God, family, country: our three great loyalties”

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