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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.

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Having never understood the role that existing communist powers played in tempering the worst impulses of Western capitalism and imperialism, and having perceived communism as nothing but an unmitigated evil, the left anti-communists did not anticipate the losses that were to come. Some of them still don't get it.

Michael Parenti Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism (1997)

But to make the comparison applicable, we must compare Communism at its best, with the regime of individual property, not as it is, but as it might be made... The laws of property have never yet conformed to the principles on which the justification of private property rests.

John Stuart Mill

The cause of Communism is the greatest cause in the history of mankind becasuse it seeks to remove from society all forms of oppression and exploitation, to liberate mankind and to ensure peace and prosperity to all.

Nelson Mandela

The Frankenstein of Communism is the product of the Jewish mind, and was turned loose upon the world by the son of a Rabbi, Karl Marx, in the hopes of destroying Christian civilization — as well as others.

Kenneth Goff

There is not so much difference between the ideologies of capitalism and communism, you know. The difference is simple. Capitalism is the exploitation of man by man, and communism is the reverse.

John Gardner

It was in prison that we found the hope of salvation for the Communists. It was there that we developed a sense of responsibility toward them. It was in being tortured by them that we learned to love them.

Richard Wurmbrand Tortured For Christ (1967)

Long live the Communist Party, and partisans! Fight, people, for your freedom! Do not surrender to the evildoers! I will be killed, but there are those who will avenge me!

Lepa Radić

The Communists are Jews, and Russia is being entirely administered by them. They are in every government office, bureau and newspaper. They are driving out the Russians and are responsible for the anti-Semitic feeling which is increasing.

Clare Sheridan

In Russia, all you have to do to get a house is to be born in the Soviet Union. You are entitled to housing. In America, if you don't have a dollar you have a right to choose between sleeping in a house or on the pavement. Yet you say we are the slave to communism.

Nikita Khrushchev

In capitalism, communists are always better

Adonis Georgiadis

Communism was a very defective answer to some very good questions. In throwing out the bad answer, we have forgotten the good questions. I want to put the good questions back on the table.

Tony Judt

The reason I am a communist is because I believe in a total revolution which is going to overthrow the capitalist control of the economy, which will seize the wealth from all of the giant corporations that exploit and control the lives of all working people.

Angela Davis

The US right calls everything it doesn’t like 'communist'. They call Clinton and Obama 'communists'. With 'communist' as the go-to name for anything that isn't right wing, its acceptability increases. If you don't like the right, you're a communist.

Jodi Dean

The classics of Marxism: Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin, Mao Zedong.

Olavo de Carvalho

Main Currents of Marxism, by Leszek Kolakowski.

Olavo de Carvalho

Books by the most famous critics of Marxism, like Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk, Ludwig von Mises, Raymond Aron, Roger Scruton, Nicolai Berdiaev and so many others.

Olavo de Carvalho

Dogbert: Hey Gorby, did you hear this quote ... "Communism is the most painful path between capitalism and capitalism."

Scott Adams

Socialism was the only means of freeing the world from war and poverty. Socialism stood as a third alternative to a barbaric Communism and capitalism in a state of decay. Communism was a falsification of the principles of Socialism.

Clement Attlee

The Communists are determined to destroy us, and regardless of what hand of friendship we may hold out or what arguments we may put up, the only thing that will make that decisive difference is the strength of the United States.

John F. Kennedy

Perhaps communism may even have been a viable solution to the problems of the unequal distribution of wealth that characterized the industrial age, if all of the hypothetically oppressed were good people and all of the evil was to be found, as hypothesized, in their bourgeoisie overlords. Unfortunately for the communists, a substantial proportion of the oppressed were incapable, unconscientious, unintelligent, licentious, power mad, violent, resentful, and jealous, while a substantial proportion of the oppressors were educated, able, creative, intelligent, honest, and caring.

Jordan Peterson Beyond Order (2021)

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