Communism Quotes

Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.
John F. Kennedy

Power, War, Corruption

Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.
George Bernard Shaw

Same, Socialism, English

Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements.
Nelson Mandela

Freedom, Fight, Played

The goal of socialism is communism.
Vladimir Lenin

Goal, Socialism

The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.
Karl Marx

May, Theory, Private

Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation.
Will Rogers

About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm.
Kurt Vonnegut

Birthday, Good, Best

Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H. L. Mencken

Religion, Made, Revealed

Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.
Frank Zappa

In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy.
Fran Lebowitz

Democracy, Country, Union

Communism has decided against God, against Christ, against the Bible, and against all religion.
Billy Graham

Religion, God, Against

Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Capitalism, Opposite, Exploits

A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism.
Karl Marx

Europe, Haunting, Specter

There is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism.
Karl Marx

Europe, Haunting, Specter

I am for socialism, disarmament, and, ultimately, for abolishing the state itself... I seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class, and the sole control of those who produce wealth. Communism is the goal.
Roger Nash Baldwin

Control, Goal, Social

A common danger tends to concord. Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak. In Communism, inequality comes from placing mediocrity on a level with excellence.
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Strong, Mediocrity, Weak

The Cold War isn't thawing; it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isn't sleeping; it is, as always, plotting, scheming, working, fighting.
Richard M. Nixon

War, Working, Fighting

Communism is like one big phone company.
Lenny Bruce

Big, Company, Phone

We first fought... in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.
Serj Tankian

Change, Religion, Excuses

Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.
Mao Zedong

Love, Enemy, Crush

Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal.
Adlai E. Stevenson

Death, Soul, Short

Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death.
Heinrich Heine

Death, Envy, Understand

Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.
Adlai E. Stevenson

Justice, Corruption, Dream

Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country.
Vladimir Lenin

Power, Country, Whole

For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Living, Dead, While

Communism is a hateful thing, and a menace to peace and organized government.
Grover Cleveland

Peace, Government, Hateful

I spent my life studying communism and Soviet systems.
Madeleine Albright

Life, Studying, Systems

It was patriotism, not communism, that inspired me.
Ho Chi Minh

Patriotism, Inspired

I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
Pat Robertson

Great, God, Evil

No one should suffer from the great delusion that any form of communism or socialism which promotes the dictatorship of the few instead of the initiative of the millions can produce a happier or more prosperous society.
Charles E. Wilson

Great, Society, Few

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