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Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.
Christ in this country would quite likely have been arrested under the Suppression of Communism act.
The religion of that prophet [Karl Marx] who knew not the truth, is founded upon equality of the belly.
Communism is a society where each one works according to his abilities and gets according to his needs.
We should not wonder at the success of communism, for so much of its success is rather that of religion.
For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion.
It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.
"It all came from there," Lech Walesa said, pointing to a TV when a reporter asked him why communism fell.
There has never been a communism that worked. They were all dictatorships or oligarchies, every single one.
Communism starts with the proposition that there are no universal truths or general truths of human nature.
While communism is the control of business by government, fascism is the control of government by business.
Communism introduced into the world a substitute for true religion. It is a counterfeit of the gospel plan.
The best way to make Communists is to put the Americans into a place where there were no Communists before.
I just happen to know quite a lot of what happened in Czechoslovakia between 1968 and the fall of Communism.
Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death.
Living in Constanta under communism, we did not have the ethnic diversity that I then encountered in America.
There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.
To apply communism is an aspiration, in fact it has never been applied anywhere, it is really still a utopia.
Even now we feel that Stalin was devoted to Communism, he was a Marxist, this cannot and should not be denied.
We need do no more than repeat: only under communism does the individual become himself and lead his own life.
In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy.
In fact, there is an academic blackout about the atrocities perpetrated in the name of communism and socialism.
The chief fruit of the First World War was the Russian Revolution and the rise of Communism as a national power.
'Collective' sounds like communism, but we do work and live in a society where there is a collective well-being.
[I]n communism, you'd threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes.
Either communism must die or Christianity must die because it's actually a battle between Christ and Anti-Christ.
The Communism of the English intellectual is something explicable enough. It is the patriotism of the deracinated.
The real evil of the Russian communist state is not communism. It is the secret police and the concentration camp.
Communism didn't work because people weren't ready for it, it was corrupt, and because it squelched individualism.
Communism is quite obviously still a threat. Yes, they are human beings, with a right to their point of view . . .
I'm against any religion, and Communism and Nazism - they're both equally religions. They're just replacement gods.
Communism, being the lay form of Catholicism, and indeed meaning the same thing, has never had any lack of chaplains.
I do not accept being a prisoner of fear. Of Communism, of fascism. That, one can bear. But of one's fear. No. Never.
Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals - With no cure except as a guillotine might be called a cure for dandruff.
The fact that free men persist in the search for the truth is the essential difference between Communism and Democracy.
Without a single shot we've managed to liberate the world of communism but now there is a need for a global solidarity.
Lots of us have been plugging away, building a platform to talk about libertarian communism and post-scarcity economics.
Capitalism has triumphed all over the world, but this triumph is only the prelude to the triumph of labour over capital.
Communism was something so hideous that you had to be an exceptional conformist or a fool not to see the evil around you.
I never compared Nazis into communism, but communism was the same thing, the end justifies the means. Whatever the means.
In Western-style Communism we would have to create an almost imaginary workers' image of themselves as the father-figure.
We need the private sector to create jobs. If the government could create jobs Communism would have worked, but it didn't.
There's a growing consensus that the best way to defeat communism in Cuba is to get its citizens hooked on American goods.
All societies are based on a sort of minimum level of communism. Otherwise, you couldn't have any social relations at all.
There are words bandied about that are being misused - words like 'socialism,' words like 'communism,' words like 'fascism.
I felt only a conservative president could bring peace in Vietnam 'cause he wouldn't be accused of being soft on communism.
The major reason for Keynes's rejection of communism was simply that he could scarcely identify with the grubby proletariat.
There are words bandied about that are being misused - words like 'socialism,' words like 'communism,' words like 'fascism.'
In four continents, workers, taking control of their destiny, are building a happy future, are building socialism, communism.
Communism brought out the worst in human nature and crippled people's ability or ambition to participate in a market economy.