Communism Quotes
Karl Marx has the most entries, then Olavo de Carvalho, Yuval Noah Harari, Gustave de Molinari and Engels, so supporters and critics share the page. Bertrand Russell has the most sourced lines. In The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism (1920) he says the hopes behind communism are as admirable as those of the Sermon on the Mount but are held as fanatically and are as likely to do as much harm. In Why I Am Not a Christian (1927) he lists it with Buddhism, Hinduism, Christianity and Islam as untrue and harmful. In 1963 he says he dislikes it because it is undemocratic.
Three entries are marked misattributed. The line about being called a saint for feeding the hungry and a Communist for asking why they are hungry is credited to Dorothy Day, and the notes list several variants. Charles de Gaulle is credited with a remark that the evolution toward communism is inevitable, and Barry Goldwater with one about fraternities.
Communism is a form of organized crime justified by the [worldview] of Marxism–Leninism.
Ecumenism, both in theory and in practice, was a living reality during the era of communism.
Fascism, Nazism, and Communism are all Collectivism. In this respect they are all alike.
The paradox of communism in power was that it was conservative.
Socialism almost never has been judged as a goal in value by the experience of communism in power.