Best 647 quotes in «communism quotes» category

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

The color of communism was not red but gray.

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

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

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 paradox of communism in power was that it was conservative.

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

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.

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

The political form of a society wherein the proletariat is victorious in overthrowing the bourgeoisie will be a democratic republic.

The power to tax is the power to destroy.

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.

There has never been a communism that worked. They were all dictatorships or oligarchies, every single one.

The religion of that prophet [Karl Marx] who knew not the truth, is founded upon equality of the belly.

The satellite revolt was not sparked from the West. It was sparked by Communism itself.

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

The way people get their living determines their social outlook.

The trusts and combinations - the communism of pelf - whose machinations have prevented us from reaching the success we deserved, should not be forgotten nor forgiven.

To apply communism is an aspiration, in fact it has never been applied anywhere, it is really still a utopia.

Things own you. That's the trouble with capitalism. Things own you. With communism and fascism - ideas own you. One idea and you can't have any other.

Ultimately freedom is necessary for a society, because every despotic society - for instance, the Russian society - lives on the basis of a rather implausible dogma - the Marxist dogma of world redemption through Communism.

Under socialism all will govern in turn and will soon become accustomed to no one governing.

Unionization, as opposed to communism, presupposes the relation of employment; it is based upon the wage system and it recognizes fully and unreservedly the institution of private property and the right to investment profit.

We don't live in a capitalist totality. Capitalism couldn't survive as a totality anyway. We live in this complex system and we already live communism and anarchism in a million forms everyday.

We should not wonder at the success of communism, for so much of its success is rather that of religion.

We were sent to Vietnam to kill Communism. But we found instead that we were killing women and children.

What, actually, is the difference between communism and fascism? Both are forms of statism, authoritarianism. The only difference between Stalin's communism and Mussolini's fascism is an insignificant detail in organizational structure.

When I was young, I thought banks were there to protect the assets of people who had justified concerns, because of their experiences under communism for example.

There may be community of material possessions, but there can never be community of love or esteem.

We believe firmly that Communism internally and externally can and must be fought without resort to the Communist tactics of the suppression of all individual freedom.

We have to render Islamist extremism as unattractive as communism has become today.

We know that communism is the right hypothesis. All those who abandon this hypothesis immediately resign themselves to the market economy, to parliamentary democracy-the form of state suited to capitalism-and to the inevitable and 'natural' character of the most monstrous inequalities.

We need do no more than repeat: only under communism does the individual become himself and lead his own life.