C Quotes
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“Communism was replaced by the threat of ambitious environmentalism.”
“Communism wasn't a word that I thought of when I went to Cuba. The original Fidelistas were not Communists. They were graduate students at the university and law students. After the Fidelistas took over, they went to Washington and tried to get support from the U.S. government, which turned them down. They were in a desperate political and economic situation, so they took the offer from the Soviet Union. Communism was a matter of necessity.”
“Communism which feeds on aggression, hatred, and the imprisonment of men's minds and souls shall not take root in the United States.”
“Communism will kill you quicker than a maraschino cherry ever will.”
Source: Sweetness #9
“Communism will never be defeated by atomic bombs. Our greatest defense against Communism is to take offensive action on behalf of justice and righteousness. We must seek to remove conditions of poverty, injustice, and racial discrimination.”
“Communism will never be halted by negotiations or through the machinations of detente. It can only be halted by force from without or by disintegration from within.”
“Communism will win.”
“Communism worked honestly by officials devoid of human frailties and devoted to nothing but the good of its slaves, would have certain manifest material advantages as compared with a proletarian wage-system where millions live in semi-starvation, and many millions more in permanent dread thereof. But even if it were administered thus Communism would only produce its benefits through imposing slavery.”
“Communism works, if everybody stopped carring about money.”
“Communism, being the lay form of Catholicism, and indeed meaning the same thing, has never had any lack of chaplains.”
“Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.”
Source: Minority Report
“Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies. When they fail to come off its clergy simply say that they will be realized later on. Thus, if we have another boom, they will argue that the collapse of capitalism is only postponed. The fact that the greatest booms ever heard of followed Marx's formal prophecy of the downfall of capitalism is already forgotten, just as millions have long since forgotten the early Christian prophecy that the end of the world was at hand. The first Christians accepted postponements as docilely as the Communists of today.”
Source: Minority Report
“Communism, my friend, is more than Marxism, just as Catholicism is more than the Roman Curia. There is a mystique as well as a politick. Catholics and Communists have committed great crimes, but at least they have not stood aside, like an established society, and been indifferent. I would rather have blood on my hands than water like Pilate.”
“Communism--the first expression of the social nature--is the first term of social development--the thesis; property, the reverse of communism, is the second term--the antithesis. When we have discovered the third term, the synthesis, we shall have the required solution.”
Source: Property is Theft!: A Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Anthology
“Communism... is the genuine resolution of the antagonism between man and nature and between man and man; it is the true resolution of the conflict between existence and essence, objectification and self-affirmation, freedom and necessity, individual and species. It is the riddle of history solved and knows itself as the solution.”
Source: Marx: Selected Writings
“Communism: Liberation of the people from the burdens of liberty”
“Communist ideology in its pure form is akin to
Christianity. Its main ideas are the brotherhood of all
peoples irrespective of their nationality, justice and
equality, peace, and an end to all hostility between
peoples.”
“Communist propaganda would sometimes include statements such as "we include almost all the commandments of the Gospel in our ideology". The difference is that the Gospel asks all this to be achieved through love, through self-limitation, but socialism only uses coercion. This is one point.”
“Communist regimes were not some unfortunate aberration, some historical deviation from a socialist ideal. They were the ultimate expression, unconstrained by democratic and electoral pressures, of what socialism is all about. ... In short, the state [is] everything and the individual nothing.”
“Communistic evolution, according to the Senate committee that examined it, is responsible for 135 million deaths in peacetime. There's no religion that has a tiny fraction of that many deaths on its conscience. There are scientists who will admit that there's not one iota of scientific evidence to support it.”
“Communists all seem to wear small caps, a look I consider better suited to tubes of toothpaste than to people.”
Source: The Fran Lebowitz Reader
“Communists are frustrated capitalists.”
“Communists are great capitalists, so there is no threat anymore.”
“Communists are not isolated from the proletariat. Their action is never an attempt to organize others, only to express their own subversive response to the world. Ultimately, revolutionary initiatives will interconnect. But our task is not primarily one of organisation: it is to convey (in a text or an action) an antagonistic relation to the world. However big or small it may be, such an act is an attack against the old world.”
Source: The Eclipse and Re-Emergence of the Communist Movement
“Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.”
“Communists are the last optimists.”
Source: Burger's Daughter
“Communists disavow the existence of God and religion. They hate it, because it's a competitor.”
“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.”
Source: No Easy Walk to Freedom
“Communists have always viewed the national question through the prism of the class struggle, believing that its solution has to be subordinated to the interests of the Revolution, to the interests of socialism. That is why Communists and all fighters for socialism believe that the main aspect of the national question is unification of the working people, regardless of their national origin, in the common struggle against every type of oppression, and for a new social system which rules out exploitation of the working people.”
“Communists have become bureaucrats. If anything will destroy us, it is this.”
“Communists have no respect for people, only for positions.”
Source: The Book of Daniel: A Novel
“Communists in power would be as oppressive as the aristocracy they replaced.”
Source: Winter of the World
“Communists liked history very much. It just had to be the right history. They liked to remember it selectively.”
Source: Jewels: A Secret History
“Communists love to make films about composers, because composers compose music and don't talk subversive things.”
“Communists must always go into the why's and wherefore's of anything, use their own heads and carefully think over whether or not it corresponds to reality and is really well founded; on no account should they follow blindly and encourage slavishness.”
Source: Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung
“Communists must be ready at all times to stand up for the truth, because truth is in the interests of the people; Communists must be ready at all times to correct their mistakes, because mistakes are against the interests of the people.”
Source: Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung
“Communists must listen attentively to the views of people outside the Party and let them have their say. If what they say is right, we ought to welcome it, and we should learn from their strong points; if it is wrong, we should let them finish what they are saying and then patiently explain things to them.”
Source: Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works
“Communists must never separate themselves from the majority of the people or neglect them by leading only a few progressive contingents in an isolated and rash advance, but must take care to forge close links between the progressive elements and the broad masses. This is what thinking in terms of the majority means.”
Source: Mao Tse-tung chu tso hsüan tu
“Communists should be the most farsighted, the most self-sacrificing, the most resolute, and the least prejudiced in sizing up situations, and should rely on the majority of the masses and win their support.”
“Communists should set an example in being practical as well as far-sighted. For only by being practical can they fulfil the appointed tasks, and only far-sightedness can prevent them from losing their bearings in the march forward.”
“Communists should set an example in study; at all times they should be pupils of the masses as well as their teachers.”
Source: Mao Tse-tung chu tso hsüan tu
“Communists, socialists and fascists everywhere, from Mr. Obama upward, have taken to the global warming cause like a quack to colored water. Just about every word they utter on this subject is a falsehood calculated to deceive, or - in plain English - a lie.”
“Communities and countries and ultimately the world are only as strong as the health of their women.”
“Communities and neighborhoods are affected. Idling trains, traffic backups, grade crossing accidents and other safety issues all affect the quality of life in our neighborhoods.”
“Communities are made up of the unlovable as well as the lovable.”
“COMMUNITIEs' are the only problem of all living creatures on this 'Planet Earth'. & human's suffering because of multiple communities - made/maintained/created by them, in the name of so many Human languages only. But blamed in the name of GOD/CREATOR: Mono/Poly-theistic creations.”
“Communities do not let prostitutes, pedophiles, voyeurs, adulterers, and those who sexually prefer animals to publicly celebrate their lifestyles, so why should homosexuals get such privileges?”
“Communities don't have rights. Only individuals in the community have rights.”
“Communities everywhere seek an evolution, not a revolution”
Source: Conscious Cures: Soulutions to 21st Century Pandemics
“Communities have a responsibility to assist the family in promoting wholesome entertainment. What a community tolerates will become tomorrow's standard for today's youth.”