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The [Communist] Party has one objective: the creation of a socialist economy; and one means: the utilization of the class struggle.
People who have a conservative viewpoint both religiously and politically and they fear that the world is going to be thrown into perpetual communism.
Most people who read "The Communist Manifesto" probably have no idea that it was written by a couple of young men who had never worked a day in their lives, and who nevertheless spoke boldly in the name of "the workers". Thomas Sowell .
I went to Russia a Communist; but contact with those who have no doubts has intensified a thousandfold my own doubts, not as to Communism in itself, but as to the wisdom of holding a creed so firmly that for its sake men are willing to inflict widespread misery.
How easy it was to be a Communist when you weren't living under Communism!
Personally, I never admired communists because they operate on the theory that human beings are nice people.
The important thing is that you should not argue with them [Communists]....Whatever you say, they have ways of twisting it into shapes which put you in some lower category of mankind, 'Fascist,' 'Liberal,' 'Trotskyist,' and disparage you both intellectually and personally in the process.
Primitive, simplistic anti-Communism is all too often used as a common denominator for diverse efforts to perpetuate one's own power in a democratic system, convert opinions into dogma, and kill off all opposition, even silent.
My image of "a Communist" was not a Soviet bureaucrat but my friend Leon's father, a cabdriver who came home from work bruised and bloody one day, beaten up by his employer's goons (yes, that word was soon part of my vocabulary) for trying to organize his fellow cabdrivers into a union.
Are you a communist?"
"No I am an anti-fascist"
"For a long time?"
"Since I have understood fascism.
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.
I wonder how many such men in America would know that Communism, the New Deal, Fascism, Nazism, are merely so-many trade-names for collectivist Statism, like the trade-names for tooth-pastes which are all exactly alike except for the flavouring.
I address myself to the Communists, to those Communists who were prompted to join the Party by the progressive ideas of mankind and socialism, and not by selfish personal interests - let us represent our pure and just ideas by pure and just means.
everyone is a russian communist
I am a Christian. That obliges me to be a Communist.
The ones who close the path for peacefull revolution, at the same time open the path for violent revolution.
I'm not a communist - I believe in the free market and that entrepreneurs should be allowed to take risks because it creates wealth and jobs, but I draw the line at people risking other people's money. That's deplorable.
Most people in this country believe that the American Communist Party and its dupes are the chief internal enemy of our economic system and our form of government. This is a serious mistake.
The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed by its rubble.
The trouble with Communism is the Communists, just as the trouble with Christianity is the Christians.
Communists are the last optimists.
In the realm of totalitarian kitsch, all answers are given in advance and preclude any questions.
I entered the [Communist] Party because its cause was just and I will leave it when it ceases to be just.
Here in Prague they say that although the traffic police are communists the drivers are fascists, which would be all right if it were not that the pedestrians are anarchists.
To be a member of the Communist Party is to have a taste of the police state. It is a diluted taste but is bitter and unforgettable.
I have here in my hand a list of two hundred and five people that were known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping the policy of the State Department.
As an organized political group, the Communists have done nothing to damage our society a fraction as much as what their enemies have done in the name of defending us against subversion.
I'm not a Communist. I'm an American. I'm a capitalist. I mean, I'm not a very good capitalist, myself. I'm not very good at it, but it's not that I'm not for capitalism. But people who believe in things like corporate citizenship, it's idiotic. I mean, it shows you're an idiot.
Seventeen years after Liberation, the newspapers told us, our schools were not bringing us up to be good red socialists and communists, as we had thought, but revisionists. We
In the minds of many Americans, if you are a radical Democrat or a Socialist, you are automatically a Communist. And if you are a Communist, then therefore you are an anti-American person and a person who is not a patriot. But nothing is further from the truth.
Ask anyone committed to Marxist analysis how many angels dance on the head of a pin, and you will be asked in return to never mind the angels, tell me who controls the production of pins.
the best cure for Communist ideals is to live, even for a short time, under a Communist regime.
My great-great-grandfather Julius founded the Communist Party in New York.
A "communist/socialist/progressive" is an oxymoron, like an "atheist/evangelical Christian/Muslim."
Marxists are people whose insides are torn up day after day because they want to rule the world and no one will even publish their letter to the editor.
Communists are great capitalists, so there is no threat anymore.
No man who owns his own house and lot can be a Communist. He has too much to do.
Whatever organisation we try to create, it always ends up looking like the Communist Party.
There are no habits of man more alien to the doctrine of the Communist than those of the collector
Socialism with a human face.
Every Communist working in the mass movements should be a friend of the masses and not a boss over them, an indefatigable teacher and not a bureaucratic politician.
I don't support communism. I don't like that type of government.
When the Communist Party comes to power, it acts a lot like the mafia: If you are a loyal member in good standing, everything is yours. You're protected, even if you commit a crime.
If I've learned one thing in Spain, it's that we have to fight the Communists just as hard as the Fascists. They're both evil.
Communists had it all wrong. It wasn't the rich who were imprisoned by their possessions, it was the poor.
I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.
Seventy years after Marx's death, one third of the human race lived under regimes ruled by communist parties which claimed to represent his ideas and realise his aspirations.
Communism is a form of government under which every citizen at election time enjoys the privilege of voting Yes.
I am a Communist, a convinced Communist! For some that may be a fantasy. But to me it is my main goal.
The Nazis had been one thing. The communists were another. But now there were academics crawling all over the palace.
In my grandfather's time, the FN was founded largely as an anti-Communist party.
First of all, we have to understand what communism is. I mean, to me, real communism, the Soviet communism, is basically a mask for Bolshevism, which is a mask for Judaism.
I mean, what are they scared of? Who's going to vote for anyone from the Communist Party, for God's sake?
I work in the most non-Communist job. I work for 'Martha Stewart Living.'
We Communists have to string along with the capitalists for a while. We need their agriculture and their technology.
I am asking for Liberal Fascists, for enlightened Nazis.
The repentant, run-to-seed ultra-Leftists who have converted to humanitarianism, artificial inseminators of the widow and the orphan, themselves orphans of reality and malades imaginaires of politics, premature ejaculators of posthistory and hyperchondriacs of the dead body of ideology and morality.
To discover a society,' said I, 'erected on a strictly communistic basis.'
'Of all the wild extravagant theories!' began the Psychologist.
[A woman waiting for him in the Kremlin asked Gobachev] "Was communism invented by a politician or a scientist?" [He replied] "Well, a politician." She said, "That explains it. The scientist would have tried it on mice first."
Communists all seem to wear small caps, a look I consider better suited to tubes of toothpaste than to people.
The revolution is an amalgam of former Party functionaries, quasi- democrats, KGB officers, and black-market wheeler-dealers, who are standing in power now and have represented a dirty hybrid unseen in world history
Communists must always go into the why's and wherefore's of anything, use their own heads and carefully think over whether or not it corresponds to reality and is really well founded; on no account should they follow blindly and encourage slavishness.
Growing up in a cathedral precinct, what did I know of the absurdities of communism, of how brave man and women in bleak and remote penal colonies were reduced to thinking day by day of nothing else beyond their own survival?
As a young Marxist in college during the 1950s heyday of the anti-Communist crusade led by Senator Joseph McCarthy, I had more freedom to express my views in class, without fear of retaliation, than conservative students have on many campuses today.
Are you a Communist, Dora?
What does Karl Marx put on his pasta? Communist Manipesto!
Poltroons, cowards, skulkers and dastards.
Communism is what happens when Socialists realize that they want complete control over every aspect of human life.
My dad was a Communist Party member who fought for his country.
What are our schools for if not indoctrination against Communism?
The Communist Party must be a revolutionary party our it will cease to be a Communist Party.
The immediate aim of the Communist is the same as that of all the other proletarian parties: formation of the proletariat into a class, overthrow of the bourgeois supremacy, conquest of political power by the proletariat.
Communists should set an example in being practical as well as far-sighted. For only by being practical can they fulfil the appointed tasks, and only far-sightedness can prevent them from losing their bearings in the march forward.
Democrats - lily-livered, weasel-assed collaborators.
It is impossible to read through the reports in the Communist Press without realizing that they are consciously aimed at a public ignorant of the facts and have no other purpose than to work up prejudice.
Communism will win.
If there is one thing all Fascists and National Socialists agreed on, it was their hostility to capitalism.
The Communists were interested in getting into key positions as union officers, statisticians, economists, etc., in order to utilize the apparatus of the unions to promote the cause of revolution.
The lunatic fringe in all reform movements.
Why not be a communist, she thinks, if it means that kind of belonging?
Other examples of granfalloons are the Communist party, the Daughters of the American Revolution, the General Electric Company, the International Order of Odd Fellows - and any nation, anytime, anywhere.
I joined the Communist Party because I felt I had to be in some organization.
Factories are the workplaces of our National Socialist racial comrades.
The German communist party, for years the strongest outside the Soviet Union itself, was broken in a matter of a few months. Its defeat was a serious blow to the prestige of the international communist movement.11
I ask every Communist individually to set an example, by deeds and without pretense, a real example worthy of a man and a Communist, in restoring order, starting normal life, in resuming work and production, and in laying the foundations of an ordered life.
We Communists are like seeds and the people are like the soil. Wherever we go, we must unite with the people, take root and blossom among them.
I am a Christian, therefore I am a communist.
This school is enough to make anyone a communist.
Communism is Christianity castrated by Ockham's Razor.
All political power comes from the barrel of a gun. The communist party must command all the guns, that way, no guns can ever be used to command the party.
There are only two sorts of people in life you can trust - good Christians and good Communists.
[He] saw communism for the sham that it was
a bunch of brutes who seized power in the name of the people, only to repress the very people they claimed to champion.
Look, I can surely say by now that I've got the antibodies to communism inside me. But when I think of consumer society, with all its tragedies, I wonder which of the two systems is better.
I ain't a Communist necessarily, but I have been in the red all my life.
I spent part of my college years in a Marxist commune. I was not a Marxist. I wasn't even pretending to be one. I was a Marxist-in-law.
No reasonable man, much less a Christian, can or should take part in the efforts of Communists and Socialists
You'll see certain Pythagorean whose belief in communism of property goes to such lengths that they pick up anything lying about unguarded, and make off with it without a qualm of conscience as if it had come to them by law.
Communism is an interesting thing to do, nothing I ever want to be.
The communists may not have done very well in the end, but I can't help thinking of capitalism as merely the go-to religion of the greedy and selfish.
I became a Communist by studying capitalist political economy, and when I had some understanding of that problem, it actually seemed to me so absurd, so irrational, so inhuman, that I simply began to elaborate on my own formulas for production and distribution.