Best 157 quotes in «communist quotes» category

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

I will never vote Democrat again, they are Communists.

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.

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!

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

Marihuana leads to pacifism and communist brainwashing.

Martin Luther King was not a Marxist or a communist, but his radical love leads him to put poor and working people at the center.

Most of the Communists I knew were nice people.

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

Only communist regimes have churned out more jargon than modern business.

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

My Kashubian family, like the Jews, are people who were born and live in border areas and were suspected by the Nazis and by the Communists of being disloyal.

Of course, I do not believe in having everyone who is a liberal called a communist, or everyone who is conservative called a fascist.

One of the major principles is that Soviet literature must be inseverably linked with the policy of the Communist party

Only one more indispensable massacre of Capitalists or Communists or Fascists or Christians or Heretics, and there we are in the Golden Future.

My great-great-grandfather Julius founded the Communist Party in New York.

No strike could ever be won with a Communist at its head since the employers would make victory impossible.

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

One thing I want to make clear, as far as my own rebirth is concerned, the final authority is myself and no one else, and obviously not China's Communists.

Only Communists and Social Democrats who acted against the state were incarcerated. Most of the Communists and Social Democrats I had known became Nazis later. Only those who were doing anything against the state were thrown in concentration camps.

Picasso is a painter, so am I; Picasso is Spanish, so am I; Picasso is a communist, neither am I.

People are actually very good at being communists in the sense that they instantly abandon capitalism, that they love these relationships of mutual aid, because the astonishing thing about disasters is that people are often weirdly joyous in them, because they've recovered a sense of agency, a sense of power, etc.

Personally, I never admired communists because they operate on the theory that human beings are nice people.

Pig power in America was infuriating, but pig power in the communist framework was awesome and unaccountable.

Some people say to me, "My God, but Fidel Castro is a communist!" I say: "No, he was a messenger of God.

Schneider's characters, like Kundera's, are sentient and sophisticated figures at a time when the constraints of Communist rule persist but its energy has entirely vanished.

Show me where Stalin is buried and I'll show you a Communist Plot.

Technology determines the possibilities of society. It doesn't matter whether you start out from a fascist state or a communist state or a free-market state

The American Communists had thrived as champions of domestic reform.

That's why we had Louis C.K. portray the harder line Communist, to accuse [Dalton] Trumbo of being a hypocrite.

The American escalation of the war in Laos provoked a response by the Communist forces, which now control more of Laos than ever before.

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 communists pave the way for him (the Jew).

The Communists have no need to introduce free love; it has existed almost from time immemorial.

The Communist Party of China is a party that seeks peace, harmony and reconciliation, unlike the Communist Party of the former Soviet Union

the construction of a communist society would be completed 'in the main' by 1980

The Communist regime didn't consider this to be a shining moment in history and assigned no heroism to it. They classified it as merely an accident.

The Communists do have a god, the Dialectic of History, which guarantees everything that they're going to do and guarantees them victory; that's why they're fanatic.

The Communist Party must be a revolutionary party our it will cease to be a Communist Party.

The communists were mainly responsible for the destruction of the Spanish anarchists. Not just in Catalonia - the communist armies mainly destroyed the collectives elsewhere.