Communism Quotes
Martin Luther King Jr.
Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.
4299 José Martí
The first duty of a man is to think for himself
1524 Malcolm X
You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker
1086 Vladimir Ilich Lenin
Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.
4500 Albert Einstein
The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!
1833 Leon Trotsky
The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.
4237 Norman Mailer
Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war.
4654 Leon Trotsky
Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.
2433 Malcolm X
The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba - yes Cuba too.
1775 Vladimir Ilich Lenin
Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle.
4107 Adam Smith
Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.
2343 José Martí
A child who does not think about what happens around him and is content with living without wondering whether he lives honestly is like a man who lives from a scoundrel's work and is on the road to being a scoundrel.
4871 José Martí
But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to build up over whole centuries the indignation of a pious spirit, with its natural following of oppressed souls, will cast down with a single shove.
2465 Michael Collins
I knew I was alone in a way that no earthling has ever been before.
4005 Vladimir Ilich Lenin
Unity is a great thing and a great slogan. But what the workers’ cause needs is the unity of Marxists, not unity between Marxists, and opponents and distorters of Marxism.
2671 Fulton J. Sheen
Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.
3426 Stefan Molyneux
The world, viewed philosophically, remains a series of slave camps, where citizens – tax livestock – labor under the chains of illusion in the service of their masters.
1844 Karl Marx
Then the world will be for the common people, and the sounds of happiness will reach the deepest springs. Ah! Come! People of every land, how can you not be roused.
3906 Charles E. Coughlin
I have dedicated my life to fight against the heinous rottenness of modern capitalism because it robs the laborer of this world's goods. But blow for blow I shall strike against Communism, because it robs us of the next world's happiness.
3668 Bertrand Russell
Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature made them.
3453 Jeffrey Tucker
There is only a certain amount of wealth in the world, this thinking goes. Economics is a matter of acquiring and allocating, not creating. This was the view of the world’s smartest people, all top philosophers and not stupid people, for many thousands of years before the age of the enlightenment. It still is.
3805 H.L. Mencken
The trouble with Communism is the Communists, just as the trouble with Christianity is the Christians.
3423 Ernest Hemingway
How would that premise stand up if he examined it? That was probably why the Communists were always cracking down on Bohemiansism. When you were drunk or when you committed adultery you recognised your own personal fallability of that so mutable substitute for the apostles' creed, the party line. Down with Bohemianism, the sin of Majakowski.
3142 Otto Von Bismarck
Crowned heads, wealth and privilege may well tremble should ever again the Black and Red unite!"
-after the split between Anarchists and Marxists in 1872
3951 Ronald Reagan
How do you tell a Communist? Well, it’s someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It’s someone who understands Marx and Lenin.
1326 Karl Marx
Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.
Workingmen of all countries unite!
3091 Mike Norton
It is not what you can do for your country, but what you can do for all of mankind.
3967 Benito Mussolini
State ownership! It leads only to absurd and monstrous conclusions; state ownership means state monopoly, concentrated in the hands of one party and its adherents, and that state brings only ruin and bankruptcy to all.
2565 Eric Hoffer
If the Communists win Europe and a large part of the world, it will not be because they know how to stir up discontent or how to infect people with hatred, but because they know how to preach hope.
4851 T.H. White
The race will find that capitalists and communists modify themselves so much during the ages that they end by being indistinguishable as democrats...
3424 Milan Kundera
It's not your enemies who condemn you to solitude, it's your friends
2470 Stefan Molyneux
Deep pockets and empty hearts rule the world. We unleash them at our peril.
2817 George Reisman
Liberty should be understood as freedom from the government, specifically, freedom from the initiation of physical force by the government.
2400 Stefan Molyneux
The paralysis of potential is essential to the manufacturing of victims.
1659 Fidel Castro
If people call me Christian, not from the standpoint of religion but from the standpoint of social vision, I declare that I am a Christian.
4343 Dave Champion
Socialism always produces evil results, no matter one's intentions.
2281 Kenneth Minogue
Europeans have sometimes been beguiled by a despotism that comes concealed in the seductive form of an ideal – as it did in the cases of Hitler and Stalin. This fact may remind us that the possibility of despotism is remote neither in space nor in time.
3053 Hélder Câmara
When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.
4036 Liao Yiwu
In these remote corners, I have discovered a center point, where East met West, and although there has been a collision of cultures, there is now a new Christian identity that is distinctly Chinese.
The circuitous mountain path in Yunnan province is red because over many years it has been soaked with blood.
1063 Thomas Stephen Szasz
Psychiatrists look for twisted molecules and defective genes as the causes of schizophrenia, because schizophrenia is the name of a disease. If Christianity or Communism were called diseases, would they then look for the chemical and genetic “causes” of these “conditions”?
4687 Terri Cheney
[ ] manic sex isn't really intercourse. It's dicourse, just another way to ease the insatiable need for contact and communication. In place of words, I simply spoke with my skin.
3099 Greg Johnson
Violence, of course, is generally associated with frankly totalitarian forms of anti-political utopianism like Communism, but the Second World War shows that liberal universalists are as capable of violence as Communists. They are just less capable of honesty.
3982 Ernest Hemingway
Are you a communist?"
"No I am an anti-fascist"
"For a long time?"
"Since I have understood fascism.
4112 Heda Margolius Kovaly
It was becoming evident to many that while evil grows all by itself, good can be achieved only through hard struggle and maintained only through tireless effort, ..
1672 Leon Trotsky
With all due respect to all philistines, the dictatorship of the proletariat does just consist in "giving a hiding" to the classes that were previously supreme, before forcing them to recognize the new order and to submit to it.
4586 Aldous Huxley
It is only when we have renounced our preoccupation with "I," "me," "mine," that we can truly possess the world in which we live. Everything, provided that we regard nothing as property. And not only is everything ours; it is also everybody else's.
3324 Joseph Stalin
...[I]ron discipline does not preclude but presupposes criticism and contest of opinion within the Party. Least of all does it mean that discipline must be 'blind'. On the contrary, iron discipline does not preclude but presupposes conscious and voluntary submission, for only conscious discipline can be truly iron discipline.
3906 Karl Marx
Communism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution.
4891 Simon Schwartz
If anybody tries to penetrate the past with the knife of the present will always act in vain. The past is invulnerable. Such attempts can only cause the present or the future to bleed." - Gregor Brand
4048 William R. Bowen
It is no wonder that Satan hates the family and has hurled his venom against it in the form of Communism.
3465 Martin Luther King Jr.
The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent.
3738 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Someone that you have deprived of everything is no longer in your power. He is once again entirely free.
3392 Oswald Mosley
Als it is hard for America to fight wars in the name of freedom, if those people themselves choose for nonfreedom. Can America and England save India from communism, if they vote communist themselves.
4437 Wendy McElroy
No one has the right to place one human being in a position of political power over another.
3074 Jeffrey Tucker
Ultimately, all arguments against markets are arguments against anarchy. Marx understood this much, at least.
3485 Ludwig Von Mises
Freedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it is difficult to stop.
1059 Alexis De Tocqueville
It's not an endlessly expanding list of rights - the 'right' to education, the 'right' to health care, the 'right' to food and housing. That's not freedom, that's dependency. Those aren't rights, those are the rations of slavery - hay and a barn for human cattle.
1048 Murray N. Rothbard
There are two and only two ways that any economy can be organized. One is by freedom and voluntary choice - the way of the market. The other is by force and dictation - the way of the State.
3242 Wilhelm Röpke
In spite of its alluring name, the welfare state stands or falls by compulsion. It is compulsion imposed upon us with the state’s power to punish noncompliance. Once this is clear, it is equally clear that the welfare state is an evil the same as every restriction of freedom.
2027 Herbert Spencer
They who employ force by proxy are as much responsible for that force as though they employed it themselves.
2951 Albert Jay Nock
In proportion as you give the state power to do things for you, you give it power to do things to you.
2914 Murray N. Rothbard
It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being forced to pay the cost.
4876 Stefan Molyneux
If you can convince people that freedom is injustice, they will then believe that slavery is freedom.
4268 Mal Peet
Freedom had no place in the Soviet System. Freedom was another word for anarchy, and that wouldn't do at all.
4841 Friedrich Engels
The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.
1785 Karl Marx
Labor in the white skin can never free itself as long as labor in the black skin is branded.
2529 Bertolt Brecht
Those who are weak don't fight.
Those who are stronger might fight
for an hour.
Those who are stronger still might fight
for many years.
The strongest fight
their whole life.
They are the indispensable ones.
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