Best 157 quotes in «communist quotes» category

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

I said, "Suppose communists come out against cancer, do we have to automatically come out for cancer?'" I can't take back that I'm against the poll tax, that I'm against lynching, that I'm for peace.

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.

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

I thought the original Communist revolutionaries coordinated themselves a bit better and didn't go around shouting about it.

It's beyond me how anybody can look at these protestors and call them anything other than what they are: anti-American, anticapitalist, pro-Marxist communists.

It never occurred to me that we would have as grandiose a program as the Marshall Plan, but I felt that we had to do something to save Europe from economic disaster which would encourage the Communist takeover.

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.

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.

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.

It was strictly forbidden to preach to other prisoners. It was understood that whoever was caught doing this received a severe beating. A number of us decided to pay the price for the privilege of preaching, so we accepted their [the communists' ] terms. It was a deal; we preached and they beat us. We were happy preaching. They were happy beating us, so everyone was happy.

I watch Glenn Beck and he's taught me well. Progressive is the new word for Communist

It would be quite wrong to hold the Soviet government responsible for the activities of American Communists.

I was never a cardholder. But I was leftist in the sense that I voted communist.

I was surprised to see the meeting was of Communists and the whole meeting was along Communist lines.

Marxism is what has seduced American liberals - well, liberals worldwide, communists, all leftists.

I will never vote Democrat again, they are Communists.

I would live in a communist country providing I was the Queen.

Jesus Christ was the biggest blight on the human race, he was. And all them socialists and communists - second rate Christianity.

Karl Marx was in favor of socialist and communist-socialist revolutions, but he had a pretty nuanced view about it.

Keynes, far from being a wholehearted lover of freedom, viewed with some sympathy the fascist and Communist ‘experiments’ of the 1930s.

Let us have no further blind devotion to the communist dominated United Nations!

Many Communist government officials have a rigid, dictatorial power, but they live in constant suspicion and fear of anything that might undermine the power they have.

It was not Soviet people who formed the American Communist Party.

Most of the Communists I knew were nice people.

My dad was a Communist Party member who fought for his country.

My father, Charles Seeger, got me into the Communist movement. He backed out around '38. I drifted out in the 50's.