Best 157 quotes in «communist quotes» category

American capitalism has helped finance the communist take over of the world. Somebody is going to answer to God for this.

A Communist must never be opinionated or domineering, thinking that he is good in everything while others are good in nothing; he must never shut himself up in his little room, or brag and boast and lord it over others.

A "communist/socialist/progressive" is an oxymoron, like an "atheist/evangelical Christian/Muslim.

As you know, I am not a writer but a Party functionary. But like every Communist I consider myself to have been mobilized by Party propaganda and deem it my duty to participate actively in the work of our press.

Any man who is not a communist at the age of 20 is a fool.

As for people who are politically backward, Communists should not slight or despise them, but should befriend them, unite with them, convince them and encourage them to go forward.

Communists all seem to wear small caps, a look I consider better suited to tubes of toothpaste than to people.

Communists are great capitalists, so there is no threat anymore.

Communists disavow the existence of God and religion. They hate it, because it's a competitor.

Communists love to make films about composers, because composers compose music and don't talk subversive things.

"Cap and trade" is just about the most effective tool for controlling most economic activity short of openly declaring ourselves a communist nation and it's a radical environmentalist's dream come true.

Communists should set an example in study; at all times they should be pupils of the masses as well as their teachers.

Communists are frustrated capitalists.

Communists are the last optimists.

Ever since I took to the streets when I was 17 to protest at great personal risk against the communist dictatorship, I have been a passionate democrat.

Everybody was wary. This was a time when communists marched through the streets, waving flags and shouting. The unions did the same thing so you began to associate them.

Because I was single, there was a chance I was a homosexual. Because I went to Syracuse, wherever that was, then I was probably a Communist. Or worse, a Liberal. Because I was from Memphis, I was a subversive intent on embarrassing Ford County.

First of all, let it be remembered that I speak as an ex-Communist and one who has not testified before Congressional Committees, nor written works on the Communist conspiracy.

Experience has taught me that the shallowest of communist platitudes contains more of a hierarchy of meaning than contemporary bourgeois profundity.

Every communist has a fascist frown, every fascist a communist smile.

First they went after the Communists, and I did not stand up, because I was not a Communist. Then they went after the homosexuals and infirm, and I did not stand up, because I was neither. Then they went after the Jews, and I did not stand up, because I was not a Jew. Then they went after the Catholics, and I did not stand up, because I was Protestant. Finally, they went after me, and there was no one left to stand up for me.

From a will: And to my communist nephew Oswald, I leave the sum of 10,000 pounds - to be shared equally with his fellow Britishers.

Horrible to say, in a manner I am a Communist.

I am a Maoist sympathiser. I'm not a Maoist ideologue, because the communist movements in history have been just as destructive as capitalism.

He who negates present society, and seeks social conditions based on the sharing of property, is a revolutionary whether he calls himself an anarchist or a communist.

I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.

Ho, or Nguyen Ai Quoc, thus became the first Vietnamese communist and a founding member of the French Communist party, born out of the split.

I came from a communist country where there are no luxury cars.

I believe there's about 78 to 81 members of the Democrat Party who are members of the Communist Party.

I entered the Communist Party because its cause was just and I will leave it when it ceases to be just.

I came out of the Soviet Union no longer a communist, because I believed in personal freedom.

I am a Communist, certainly, but that doesn't mean I have to make films about the wheat harvest.

If you create a new party... to try to deny the communist party leadership, then not be allowed to exist.

I don't consider China a communist state, no. I know that sounds paradoxical, but it's my view.

If the money wasted on arms could be used to help the less developed nations, that would probably be a greater blow against the Communist danger than anything else.

I joined the Communist Party because I felt I had to be in some organization.

I have decided to denounce communism, though I love the Communists. I don't find it to be right to preach the gospel without denouncing communism.

If you don't have a flag sticking out of your ass, you must be a communist.

I'm a Red-baiter; I'm a witch-hunter if the witches are Communists.

I lived under the Nazis and under the Communists.

I'm a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark.

I'm not very impressed by people who yell "traitor" and "communist" and other less printable things. I don't like it.

I'm not a communist, of course. But I do think that everything is down to economics. Capitalism doesn't change.

Indeed, if communist central planners could have organized the economy with as much detail, precision, and flexibility as a modern-day Toyota or Wal-Mart, communism would probably still exist.

In the end, we lost IndoChina to the communists. But we did not lose Southeast Asia.

I'm not a communist, a socialist or a radical. But these issues have to be addressed.

I'm not a communist, just a media theorist.

In Cuba we are building a socialist society and we could say we are on the verge of a communist society which is hard to achieve, very hard to achieve, but is a longing worth fighting for.

In my Gau, as far as I know, only Communists who had actually worked against the State were arrested.

It remains to be seen, for example whether China can continue to develop as a market economy while still retaining an authoritarian communist political system.