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[On Communism] It's a curious, impossible, impractical scheme of life, not based on anything sound, psychologically."

— Pearl S. Buck

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Ah well, perhaps one has to be very old before one learns how to be amused rather than shocked.

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Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.

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None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

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For the state to wither away completely, complete communism is necessary.

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I dislike Communism because it is undemocratic, and capitalism because it favors exploitation.

Bertrand Russell Unarmed Victory (1963)

Communism is the doctrine of the conditions of the liberation of the proletariat.

Friedrich Engels Principles of Communism (1847)

Communism has sometimes succeeded as a scavenger, but never as a leader. It has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.

John F. Kennedy

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