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Quotations
 | The goal of Socialism is Communism. — Vladimir Lenin, 1870-1924, Soviet revolutionary & leader 69 likes |
 | God is on your side? Is He a Conservative? The Devil's on my side, he's a good Communist. — Joseph Stalin, 1879-1953, Soviet leader (to Churchill) 53 likes |
 | There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism—by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide. — Ayn Rand, 1905-1982, American writer & philosopher 41 likes |
| Atheism is the natural and inseparable part of Communism. — Vladimir Lenin, 1870-1924, Soviet revolutionary & leader 25 likes |
 | Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it. — Thomas Sowell, 1930 -, American political thinker 24 likes |
| Give us the child for eight years and it will be a Bolshevik forever. — Vladimir Lenin, 1870-1924, Soviet revolutionary & leader 24 likes |
 | 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, 1911-2004, American President [1981-1989] 22 likes |
| We will hang the capitalists with the rope that they sell us. — Vladimir Lenin, 1870-1924, Soviet revolutionary & leader 21 likes |
| Everyone may be called “comrade,” but some comrades have the power of life and death over other comrades. — Thomas Sowell, 1930 -, American political thinker 20 likes |
 | The theory of Communism may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property. — Karl Marx, 1818-1883, German philosopher 17 likes |
 | Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff. — Frank Zappa, 1940-1993, American musician 17 likes |
| Workers of the world, unite! — Karl Marx, 1818-1883, German philosopher 16 likes |
 | Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat, but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires. — John Steinbeck, 1902-1968, American writer, Nobel 1962 16 likes |
 | Communism is a society where each one works according to his abilities and gets according to his needs. — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, 1809-1865, French anarchist 14 likes |
 | The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money. — Margaret Thatcher, 1925-2013, British Prime Minister 14 likes |
 | What Marxism, Leninism and Stalinism failed to accomplish, we shall be in a position to achieve. — Adolf Hitler, 1889-1945, German dictator 13 likes |
 | The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of Socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. — Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British Prime Minister, Nobel 1953 12 likes |
 | The trouble with Communism is the Communists, just as the trouble with Christianity is the Christians. — H.L. Mencken, 1880-1956, American columnist & cultural critic 9 likes |
| If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist. — Karl Marx, 1818-1883, German philosopher 8 likes |
| A spectre is haunting Europe; the spectre of Communism. — Karl Marx, 1818-1883, German philosopher (the first phrase in The Manifesto of the Communist Party [1848]) 8 likes |
| Capital is dead labor, that vampire-like, only lives by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks. — Karl Marx, 1818-1883, German philosopher 8 likes |
| Communism is Soviet government plus the electrification of the whole country. — Vladimir Lenin, 1870-1924, Soviet revolutionary & leader 8 likes |
 | There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure. — Will Durant, 1885-1981, American historian & philosopher 8 likes |
 | Of course, I do not believe in having everyone who is a liberal called a communist, or everyone who is conservative called a fascist. — Eleanor Roosevelt, 1884-1962, Wife of the 32nd USA president 8 likes |
| International unity of the workers is more important than the national. — Vladimir Lenin, 1870-1924, Soviet revolutionary & leader 7 likes |
 | Hungary conquered and in chains has done more for freedom and justice than any people for twenty years. — Albert Camus, 1913-1960, French writer, Nobel 1957 6 likes |
 | Communism and socialism, programs for intellectual control over society. Fascism, a program for the social control of intellect. — Robert M. Pirsig, 1928-2017, American writer 6 likes |
| Lenin was sent into Russia by the Germans in the same way that you might send a phial containing a culture of typhoid or cholera to be poured into the water supply of a great city, and it worked with amazing accuracy. — Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British Prime Minister, Nobel 1953 6 likes |
 | The Russian Revolution is the French Revolution which arrived late, because of the cold. — Salvador Dali, 1904-1989, Spanish painter 5 likes |
| Communism is inequality, but not as property is. Property is the exploitation of the weak by the strong. Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak. — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, 1809-1865, French anarchist 5 likes |
| From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. — Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British Prime Minister, Nobel 1953 (on Soviet communism and the Cold War, in a speech at Fulton, Missouri, in 1946) 3 likes |
 | I have never been to the Right, nor have I been a Communist, because I have experienced, personally, both forms of totalitarianism. It is those who have never lived under tyranny who call me petit bourgeois. — Eugene Ionesco, 1912-1994, French-Romanian playwright 3 likes |
 | The left claims that the guilty party in a conflict is not the one who wants to take another person’s goods, but the one who defends his own. |
 | The hopes which inspire communism are, in the main, as admirable as those instilled by the Sermon on the Mount, but they are held as fanatically and are as likely to do as much harm. |
 | Criticism and Bolshevism have one thing in common. They both seek to pull down that which they could never build. |
 | I went to Communism as one goes to a spring of fresh water, and I left Communism as one clambers out of a poisoned river strewn with the wreckage of flooded cities and the corpses of the drowned. |
 | Karl Marx: a great man who had foreseen everything except Marxism. |
 | When I was first in Czechoslovakia, it occurred to me that I work in a society where as a writer everything goes and nothing matters, while for the Czech writers I met in Prague, nothing goes and everything matters. |
 | To grasp the true meaning of socialism, imagine a world where everything is designed by the post office, even the sleaze. |
| Marxism has tremendous appeal in the Third World for exactly the same reason it had tremendous appeal to me in college. It gives you something to believe in when what surrounds you seems unbelievable. It gives you someone to blame besides yourself. It's theoretically tidy. And, best of all, it's fully imaginary so it can never be disproved. |
| The key feature of Communist propaganda has been the depiction of people who are more productive as mere exploiters of others. |
Funny Quotes
| Socialism only works in two places: Heaven where they don't need it and hell where they already have it. — Ronald Reagan, 1911-2004, American President [1981-1989] 37 likes |
 | Capitalism is the exploitation of man by man, while Marxism is the opposite. — Henri Jeanson, 1900-1970, French critic & columnist 8 likes |
 | I am a Marxist —of the Groucho tendency. — Anonymous 5 likes |
