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Communism has decided against God, against Christ, against the Bible, and against all religion.
Billy GrahamCommunism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H. L. MenckenI 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 KissingerCastro couldn’t even go to the bathroom unless the Soviet Union put the nickel in the toilet.
Richard M. NixonIf 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 GagaFrom each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
Karl MarxThe theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.
Karl MarxThere 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. KennedyThe 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. NixonTake it from someone who fled the Iron Curtain: I know what happens when you give the Russians a green light.
Madeleine AlbrightAt 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 MandelaI am a Christian. That obliges me to be a Communist.
George Bernard ShawSocialism is the same as Communism, only better English.
George Bernard ShawI spent my life studying communism and Soviet systems.
Madeleine AlbrightThere is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.
Fidel CastroI am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.
Fidel CastroThere is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism.
Karl MarxHow 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 ReaganA specter is haunting Europe – the specter of communism.
Karl MarxI 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 CastroThe U.S.S.R. had absolutely nothing to do with the triumph of the Cuban Revolution.
Fidel CastroCommunism is a religion that is inspired, directed and motivated by the Devil himself who has declared war against Almighty God.
Billy GrahamCommunism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation.
Will RogersMarx 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 CastroIt was patriotism, not communism, that inspired me.
Ho Chi MinhCommunism doesn’t work because people like to own stuff.
Frank ZappaI never accepted Communist dogma or theory.
J. Robert OppenheimerMany 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 HanhCommunists 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 MandelaCommunism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.
John F. KennedyAbout 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