communism quotes

31 quotes

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

Billy Graham

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

H. L. Mencken

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.

Henry Kissinger

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

Richard M. Nixon

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?

Lady Gaga

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

Karl Marx

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

Karl Marx

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!

John F. Kennedy

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.

Richard M. Nixon

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

Madeleine Albright

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.

Nelson Mandela

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

George Bernard Shaw

Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.

George Bernard Shaw

I spent my life studying communism and Soviet systems.

Madeleine Albright

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

Fidel Castro

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

Fidel Castro

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

Karl Marx

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.

Ronald Reagan

A specter is haunting Europe – the specter of communism.

Karl Marx

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.

Fidel Castro

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

Fidel Castro

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

Billy Graham

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

Will Rogers

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.

Fidel Castro

It was patriotism, not communism, that inspired me.

Ho Chi Minh

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

Frank Zappa

I never accepted Communist dogma or theory.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

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.

Thich Nhat Hanh

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.

Nelson Mandela

Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.

John F. Kennedy

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.

Kurt Vonnegut