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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.

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

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.

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.

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?

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.

I never accepted Communist dogma or theory.

I became a Communist by studying capitalist political economy, and when I had some understanding of that problem, it actually seemed to me so absurd, so irrational, so inhuman, that I simply began to elaborate on my own formulas for production and distribution.

Everyone knows nowadays that people ‚have complexes‘. What is not so well known, though far more important theoretically, is that complexes can have us.

Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States – old as well as new – North as well as South.

I spent my life studying communism and Soviet systems.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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!

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

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

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.

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

The dominant theory coming out of Hollywood is that peoples‘ attention spans are getting shorter and shorter and they need more stimulation.

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.

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

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.

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

About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm.

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.

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?

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

I have just got a new theory of eternity.

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

There is no body of theory or significant body of relevant information, beyond the comprehension of the layman, which makes policy immune from criticism.

It was patriotism, not communism, that inspired me.

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.

Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements.

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

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.

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.

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

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

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

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

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.

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

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

I don’t see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves.

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.

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.

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.

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

It’s perfectly obvious that there is some genetic factor that distinguishes humans from other animals and that it is language-specific. The theory of that genetic component, whatever it turns out to be, is what is called universal grammar.

Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.

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