Communism Quotes

Communism is like one big phone company.

Lenny Bruce

Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements.

Nelson Mandela

Socialists think profits are a vice; I consider losses the real vice.

Sir Winston Churchill

It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice; I consider the real vice is making losses.

Sir Winston Churchill

The substance of the eminent Socialist gentlemen's speech is that making a profit is a sin. It is my belief that the real sin is taking a loss!

Sir Winston Churchill

Socialism is like a dream. Sooner or later you wake up to reality.

Sir Winston Churchill

What is a Communist? One who has yearnings for equal division of unequal earnings.

Ebenezer Elliot

In the end we beat them with Levi 501 jeans. Seventy-two years of Communist indoctrination and propaganda was drowned out by a three-ounce Sony Walkman. A huge totalitarian system has been brought to its knees because nobody wants to wear Bulgarian shoes. Now they're lunch, and we're number one on the planet.

P. J. O'Rourke

Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth.

Harold MacMillan

How would that premise stand up if he examined it? That was probably why the Communists were always cracking down on Bohemiansism. When you were drunk or when you committed adultery you recognised your own personal fallability of that so mutable substitute for the apostles' creed, the party line. Down with Bohemianism, the sin of Majakowski.

Ernest Hemingway

Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals with no cure except as a guillotine might be called a cure for dandruff.

Clare Boothe Luce, "Newsweek", J

A specter is haunting Europe -- the specter of communism.

Karl Marx

The theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.

Karl Marx

All I know is I'm not a Marxist.

Karl Marx

Socialism can only arrive by bicycle.

Jose Antonio Viera Gallo

Communism is like prohibition, it is a good idea, but it won't work.

Will Rogers

Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation.

Will Rogers

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.

Michel De Certeau

Let's not talk about Communism. Communism was just an idea, just pie in the sky.

Boris Yeltsin

You might think that the Left could have a regime-change perspective of its own, based on solidarity with its comrades abroad. After all, Saddam's ruling Ba'ath Party consolidated its power by first destroying the Iraqi communist and labor movements, and then turning on the Kurds (whose cause, historically, has been one of the main priorities of the Left in the Middle East). When I first became a socialist, the imperative of international solidarity was the essential if not the defining thing, whether the cause was popular or risky or not. I haven't seen an anti-war meeting all this year at which you could even guess at the existence of the Iraqi and Kurdish opposition to Saddam, an opposition that was fighting for 'regime change' when both Republicans and Democrats were fawning over Baghdad as a profitable client and geopolitical ally. Not only does the 'peace' movement ignore the anti-Saddam civilian opposition, it sends missions to console the Ba'athists in their isolation, and speaks of the invader of Kuwait and Iran and the butcher of Kurdistan as if he were the victim and George W. Bush the aggressor.

Christopher Hitchens