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It was patriotism, not communism, that inspired me.

Ladies and gentlemen, communism didn't fall. It was pushed.

I was the true future. I understood Communism better than they did.

I worked at a factory owned by Germans, at coal pits owned by Frenchmen, and at a chemical plant owned by Belgians. There I discovered something about capitalists. They are all alike, whatever the nationality. All they wanted from me was the most work for the least money that kept me alive. So I became a communist.

I was working in the gap where Martin Luther King, Jr. quoted communism and Warhol appropriated the protest image and named it riot, which is precisely what King didn't want his cause to be associated with. But that was the very thing that made it sexy to the art world. So I played between the two associations.

I will not pretend that if I had to choose between communism and Nazism I would choose communism.

Journalism is less addictive than communism.

Liberalism, communism, socialism are about denying individual liberty and creating a collective with a top down command-and-control government and economy. Conservatives are individuals and not activists at all, and so there is no such strategy to bend, shape, and form a country.

Leftists are activists. This is a strategy. Liberalism, communism, socialism, you don't need to go too deep - a peripheral study of Marxism. And you'll learn that Marxism, leftism, liberalism, they have long-term strategies for taking over and controlling whole populations. It is their objective.

Liberals were just as engaged and using the rhetoric of a sort of a battle with the Soviets and with Communism in general, with an evil empire.

Marihuana leads to pacifism and communist brainwashing.

My communism attempts basically to create a shared society, that's all; a shared society in which individuality will flourish, along with love, and along with mutual respect.

My congratulations on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the October Revolution.

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.

No true Latter-day Saint and no true American can be a socialist or a communist.

Out of power, Marxism can develop critical intelligence; in power, it quickly becomes stupid.

Sharia has a ruling system, an economic system, a policy and social system, a foreign policy and judiciary system to be implemented, you know, the whole package. Under the Sharia, food, shelter and clothing will be provided for all citizens in addition to basic necessities like gas and water as well. But, it's not like communism or socialism in the respect that you can work for the luxuries.

The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the specter of Communism.

Let me tell you, communism does not work! Socialism does not work!

Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.

Many who have read Marxist books have become renegades from the revolution, whereas illiterate workers often grasp Marxism very well.

On a scale personal enough to be felt by all, but big enough to be symbolic, the two irreconcilable faiths of our time - Communism and Freedom - came to grips in the persons of two conscious and resolute men.

One is a socialist because one used to be one, no longer going to demonstrations, attending meetings, sending in one's dues, in short, without paying.

Personel selection is decisive. People are our most valuable capital.

Ronald Reagan defeated Soviet communism without firing a shot.

Ronald Reagan reignited the American economy, rebuilt the Military, bankrupted the Soviet Union and defeated Soviet Communism. I will do the same thing.

Socialism, Communism, clandestine societies, Bible societies... pests of this sort must be destroyed by all means.

Socialism in America will come through the ballot box.

Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.

Stalinism - or communism - is the only ideology Americans know how to demonise... no one knows what it is, it's just a synonym for the Empire of Evil.

The American Communist Party was notoriously infiltrated by informers, some working for the FBI, some for capitalist employers. At one time it used to be said that spies practically kept the Party going with their dues and contributions.

The best way to make Communists is to put the Americans into a place where there were no Communists before.

The brutality of communism was quickly swept under history's rug, in large part because so many on the left had embraced it as the solution to humankind's problems.

The color of communism was not red but gray.

The communism of Karl Marx would probably be actually the best for everybody as a whole. But what he didn't figure into was human nature, and that's what corrupts it.

The Communism of the English intellectual is something explicable enough. It is the patriotism of the deracinated.

The Communists offer one precious, fatal boon: they take away the sense of sin.

The goal of socialism is communism.

The great crimes of the twentieth century were committed not by money-grubbing capitalists but by dedicated idealists. Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler were contemptuous of money. The passage from the nineteenth to the twentieth century has been a passage from considerations of money to considerations of power.

The horror of Communism, Stalinism, is not that bad people do bad things -- they always do. It's that good people do horrible things thinking they are doing something great.

The costliest myth of our time has been the myth of the Communist monolith.

The Jew lends himself easily to Communism because it enables him to devote himself to a high cause, involving all of humanity, characteristics which are natural to him as a Jew.

The leaders of the Democratic Party aren't soft on Communism. They're soft on Democracy.

The paradox of communism in power was that it was conservative.

The economy of communism is an economy which grows in an atmosphere of misery and want.

The power to tax is the power to destroy.

There are indications that today the intellectuals are coming back to [Albert] Camus. History has given them reason to, with the fall of communism.

There is no doubt that America is now the prime target of international communism.

There are words bandied about that are being misused - words like 'socialism,' words like 'communism,' words like 'fascism.

There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.