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Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals [with] no cure except as a guillotine might be called a cure for dandruff.

— Clare Boothe Luce

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A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self — in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

The Women (1936)

Always remember, Peggy, it's matrimonial suicide to be jealous when you have a really good reason.

The Women (1936)

You see few people here in America who really care very much about living a Christian life in a democratic world.

There are no hopeless situations; there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.

Europe in the Spring (1940)

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

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

Vladimir Lenin The State and Revolution (1917)

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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