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Communism Quotes

Views on an ideology that shaped a century of politics.

This set brings together statements on communism as both a political system and a lived-through era, including one classic definition tying it to state power plus electrification. Others weigh how it relates to Government and centralized economic planning.

Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.

Quotes by Adlai Stevenson I

Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal.

Quotes by Adlai Stevenson I

I do not accept being a prisoner of fear. Of Communism, of fascism. That, one can bear. But of one's fear. No. Never.

Quotes by Adam Michnik

When communism collapsed in 1989, the big story that had been hardwired into citizens of western countries - that of the global battle against a distant dark and evil force - came to an abrupt end.

Quotes by Adam Curtis

Democracy Quotes

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

Quotes by A. J. P. Taylor

We are living in a epoch where there is combat between commercialism, or the system of reckless waste, and communism, or the system of neighbourly common sense.

Quotes by William Morris

I see in Communism the focus of the concentrated evil of our time.

Quotes by Whittaker Chambers

It is popular to call it a crisis of the Western world. It is in fact a crisis of the whole world. Communism, which claims to be a solution of the crisis, is itself a symptom and an irritant of...

Quotes by Whittaker Chambers

On a scale personal enough to be felt by all, but big enough to be symbolic, the two irreconcilable faiths of our time - Communism and Freedom - came to grips in the persons of two conscious and resolute men.

Quotes by Whittaker Chambers

Evil Quotes

I know that I am leaving the winning side for the losing side, but it is better to die on the losing side than to live under Communism.

Quotes by Whittaker Chambers

I don't really view communism as a bad thing.

Quotes by Whoopi Goldberg

It evolved from my experience in the fifties, growing up during the McCarthy era, and hearing a lot of assumptions that America was wonderful and Communism was terrible.

Quotes by Warren Farrell

The goal of socialism is communism.

Quotes by Vladimir Lenin

Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country.

Quotes by Vladimir Lenin

Freedom Quotes

Socialism is the gradual and less violent form of communism, and socialist is the project of the European Union, which was born in Maastricht in 1992. The intent was to save socialism in Europe after the fall of the Berlin...

Quotes by Vladimir Bukovsky

Communism didn't work because people weren't ready for it, it was corrupt, and because it squelched individualism.

Quotes by Tom Shadyac

We need the private sector to create jobs. If the government could create jobs Communism would have worked, but it didn't.

Quotes by Tim Scott

Most Hungarians know what it was to live in a dictatorship; some are old enough to have known both fascism and communism. No one wants to go back to that.

Quotes by Tibor Fischer

Communism brought out the worst in human nature and crippled people's ability or ambition to participate in a market economy.

Quotes by Thomas Woods

Government Quotes

Socialism and Communism are extremely attractive to a superficial observer. It is not until you get into the details, or actually experience it, that it becomes apparent that it does not work.

Quotes by Thomas Peterffy

Frequently Asked Questions

What kind of quotes are collected under this Communism quotes page?
This page gathers quotes discussing communism as a political and economic philosophy - covering its historical roots and how it's discussed alongside Government power and Democracy as competing systems.
Why do the quotes here look at communism from such different angles?
The collection includes personal reflections, such as growing up during the McCarthy era hearing assumptions about America and communism, alongside political definitions and comparisons between socialism and communism as related but distinct ideas.
Does this page take a political side on communism?
No. The quotes simply document how various speakers have described, criticized, or explained communism; readers can also browse contrasting ideas on Evil or Freedom to see the ideological range these debates cover.
Is there a quote linking communism to socialism?
Yes, one entry describes socialism as a more gradual, less violent path toward communism, tying the discussion to the European Union's founding-era debates about protecting socialist policy in Europe.
Who are people who typically search for communism quotes?
Students studying political history, writers covering 20th-century ideology, and readers curious how ordinary People have talked about the McCarthy era or Soviet-era slogans about electrification and Soviet power.

Several entries also trace communism's uneasy overlap with socialism as separate but connected projects, a theme worth pairing with broader reading on Freedom and Democracy as contrasting ideas.