The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.

My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.

Even in the United States, the enslavement of African descendants continued until the presidency of Abraham Lincoln. That brutal form of slavery was abolished there hardly thirty years before it was abolished in Cuba.

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.

I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do, to see a plan adopted for the abolition of it – but there is only one proper and effectual mode by which it can be accomplished, and that is by Legislative authority: and this, as far as my suffrage will go, shall never be wanting.

I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.

Many Communist government officials have a rigid, dictatorial power, but they live in constant suspicion and fear of anything that might undermine the power they have.

I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.

Is evolution a theory, a system, or an hypothesis? It is much more: it is a general condition to which all theories, all hypotheses, all systems must bow and which they must satisfy henceforward if they are to be thinkable and true.

It doesn’t matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn’t matter how smart you are. If it doesn’t agree with experiment, it’s wrong.

The situation in the sciences is this: A concept or an idea which cannot be measured or cannot be referred directly to experiment may or may not be useful. It need not exist in a theory.

All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.

It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.

There are many people in the world who really don’t understand-or say they don’t-what is the great issue between the free world and the Communist world. Let them come to Berlin!

The U.S.S.R. had absolutely nothing to do with the triumph of the Cuban Revolution.

I am a Christian. That obliges me to be a Communist.

He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.

If I decide to make a coat red in the show, it’s not just red, I think: is it communist red? Is it cherry cordial? Is it ruby red? Or is it apple red? Or the big red balloon red?

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation.

Relationships are like traffic lights. And I just have this theory that I can only exist in a relationship if it’s a green light.

Marx and Engels never talked about murdering the bourgeois. According to the old bourgeois concept, the judges were the ones who judged, and the executioners were the ones who executed.

My theory on housework is, if the item doesn’t multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?

Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.

Take it from someone who fled the Iron Curtain: I know what happens when you give the Russians a green light.

Scientific views end in awe and mystery, lost at the edge in uncertainty, but they appear to be so deep and so impressive that the theory that it is all arranged as a stage for God to watch man’s struggle for good and evil seems inadequate.

Communism doesn’t work because people like to own stuff.

A specter is haunting Europe – the specter of communism.

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

At the outset, I want to say that the suggestion that the struggle in South Africa is under the influence of foreigners or communists is wholly incorrect. I have done whatever I did because of my experience in South Africa and my own proudly felt African background, and not because of what any outsider might have said.

Communism is a religion that is inspired, directed and motivated by the Devil himself who has declared war against Almighty God.

In socialism, private property is anathema, and equal distribution of income the first consideration. In capitalism, private property is cardinal, and distribution left to ensue from the play of free contract and selfish interest on that basis, no matter what anomalies it may present.

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

I spent my life studying communism and Soviet systems.

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.

In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.

My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.

There are certain people who elicit a really passionate response. It’s crazy. That’s my Alexander Wang theory.

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.

I have a theory about the human mind. A brain is a lot like a computer. It will only take so many facts, and then it will go on overload and blow up.

If the experiments which I urge be defective, it cannot be difficult to show the defects; but if valid, then by proving the theory, they must render all objections invalid.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

I never accepted Communist dogma or theory.

There is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism.

How do you tell a communist? Well, it’s someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It’s someone who understands Marx and Lenin.

Castro couldn’t even go to the bathroom unless the Soviet Union put the nickel in the toilet.

Evolution was far more thrilling to me than the biblical account. Who would not rather be a rising ape than a falling angel? To my juvenile eyes, Darwin was proved true every day. It doesn’t take much to make us flip back into monkeys again.

From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.

A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.

The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.

My theory is 98 percent of all human endeavor is killing time.

Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein’s general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp space-time so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out.

There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.

Communism has decided against God, against Christ, against the Bible, and against all religion.

It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.

Socialism, reduced to its simplest legal and practical expression, means the complete discarding of the institution of private property by transforming it into public property, and the division of the resultant public income equally and indiscriminately among the entire population.