Quotes tagged ‘Communism’

“Just because you're a communist, does that mean you can't wear anything nice? You look like Trotsky. It's gorgeous. Fine, you want to be a communist, be a communist. Can't you at least look like a successful communist?”

— Sam Kass, Larry David, Tom Gammill, Max Pross, Tom Gammill and Max Pross, Elaine Benes, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, imdb.com

“My mother was taken from my house by the communists in the middle of the night when I was ten years old. She was sent to a slave labor camp, where she labored for twelve years. Finally, they released her and she was on a boat to America to reunite with us...but she was served some bad fish, and she…”

— Larry David, Poppie, Reni Santoni, imdb.com

“I am more than anything a Jew, a Russian Jew, he told his friend. I know a communist revolution when I see one, and this is a communist revolution.”

— Meyer Lansky, nypost.com

“The president, who finds so much to complain about in other areas of the world, apparently saw nothing wrong in recognizing a Communist regime that has killed more people in its short history of control over the teeming millions of that great country than any other collection of dictators or tyrants…”

— Barry Goldwater, newspapers.com

“And I needn't remind you, but I will; it has been during Democratic years that a billion persons were cast into Communist captivity and their fate cynically sealed.”

— Barry Goldwater, washingtonpost.com

“The good Lord raised this mighty Republic to be a home for the brave and to flourish as the land of the free-not to stagnate in the swampland of collectivism, not to cringe before the bully of communism.”

— Barry Goldwater, washingtonpost.com

“There will never be peace until God's house and God's people are given their rightful place of leadership at the top of the world. How can there be peace when drunkards, drug dealers, communists, atheists, New Age worshipers of Satan, secular humanists, oppressive dictators, greedy money changers, r…”

— Pat Robertson, books.google.com

“Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.”

— Friedrich Engels, amazon.com

“In this sense, the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.”

— Friedrich Engels, amazon.com

“I know a communism joke But it's only funny if EVERYONE gets it.”

— KiantheKid, reddit.com

“All Communist Parties, upon attaining power, have become completely merciless. But at the stage before they achieve power, it is necessary to use disguises.”

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, goodreads.com

“Communism is as crude an attempt to explain society and the individual as if a surgeon were to perform his delicate operations with a meat ax.”

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, goodreads.com

“On our crowded planet there are no longer any 'internal affairs.' The Communist leaders say, 'Don't interfere in our internal affairs. Let us strangle our citizens in peace and quiet.' But I tell you: Interfere more and more. Interfere as much as you can. We beg you to come and interfere.”

— Aleksandra Zaric, goodreads.com

“Just as King Midas turned everything to gold, Stalin turned everything to mediocrity.”

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, goodreads.com

“For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion.”

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, en.wikiquote.org

“Untouched by the breath of God, unrestricted by human conscience, both capitalism and socialism are repulsive.”

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, en.wikiquote.org

“That Marxism is not a science is entirely clear to intelligent people in the Soviet Union. One would even feel awkward to refer to it as a science. Leaving aside the exact sciences, such as physics, mathematics, and the natural sciences, even the social sciences can predict an event—when, in what wa…”

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, archive.org

“Over a half century ago, while I was still a child, I recall hearing a number of old people offer the following explanation for the great disasters that had befallen Russia: 'Men have forgotten God; that's why all this has happened.' Since then I have spent well-nigh 50 years working on the history…”

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, archive.org

“We didn't love freedom enough.”

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, archive.org

“Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.”

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, archive.org