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 death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal.
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I do not accept being a prisoner of fear. Of Communism, of fascism. That, one can bear. But of one's fear. No. Never.
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.
Democracy Quotes
The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the specter of Communism.
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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
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...
Communism didn't work because people weren't ready for it, it was corrupt, and because it squelched individualism.
We need the private sector to create jobs. If the government could create jobs Communism would have worked, but it didn't.
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.
Communism brought out the worst in human nature and crippled people's ability or ambition to participate in a market economy.
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.
