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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 trying to take the world by force. But God will take the world by love.

Quotes by Sun Myung Moon

Communism will win.

Quotes by Slavoj Zizek

Communism seemed to be an ideal experiment in trying to achieve a state where all persons have greater democracy. I might add, like other persons here and elsewhere, I found myself concerned with the problem of increasing need for greater...

Quotes by Sidney Buchman

I mean, where I come from, 'communism' is not a terrible word.

Quotes by Seth Rogen

We first fought the heathens in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.

Quotes by Serj Tankian

We first fought... in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.

Quotes by Serj Tankian

I think anytime that you go to the extreme of any mode of economics, be it capitalism or communism, you have these feedback mechanisms that make the system turn in on itself.

Quotes by Serj Tankian

In four continents, workers, taking control of their destiny, are building a happy future, are building socialism, communism.

Quotes by Samora Machel

I am for socialism, disarmament, and, ultimately, for abolishing the state itself... I seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class, and the sole control of those who produce wealth. Communism is the goal.

Quotes by Roger Nash Baldwin

For Europe, the fall of Communism has to be taken into account, and the fact that in the fight against Communism the recovery of Europe's Christian roots was the driving force.

Quotes by Rocco Buttiglione

If Communism goes, I've still got the U.S. House of Representatives.

Quotes by Robert Novak

The Cold War isn't thawing; it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isn't sleeping; it is, as always, plotting, scheming, working, fighting.

Quotes by Richard M. Nixon

In fact, there is an academic blackout about the atrocities perpetrated in the name of communism and socialism.

Quotes by Rachel Campos-Duffy

A common danger tends to concord. Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak. In Communism, inequality comes from placing mediocrity on a level with excellence.

Quotes by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Communism is inequality, but not as property is. Property is exploitation of the weak by the strong. Communism is exploitation of the strong by the weak.

Quotes by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

I grew up under Communism so we could only learn Russian, and then when Communism fell in 1989 we could learn a few more things and have the freedom to travel and the freedom of speech - and the freedom...

Quotes by Petra Nemcova

Marxism, communism, socialism - the ideologies - did not have the automatic answers to the problem of the relations between the lighter and darker races of mankind. They did not even have an answer to anti-Semitism.

Quotes by Peter Abrahams

I still call myself a communist, because communism is no more what Russia made of it than Christianity is what the churches make of it.

Quotes by Pete Seeger

When I came to Congress in 1993, the traditional idea that all politics stopped at the water's edge was alive and well. Americans had been unified for the previous four decades against the threat from the former Soviet Union and...

Quotes by Pete Hoekstra

I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.

Quotes by Pat Robertson

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.