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Let's not talk about Communism. Communism was just and idea, just pie in the sky.
Boris Yeltsin # Communism, Idea, Political Quotes
I want to apologize for our unfulfilled dreams. What we thought would be easy has proved painfully difficult. I would like to apologize for having failed to justify the hopes of the people who believed that we would be able to make a leap from the gloomy and stagnant totalitarian past to a bright, prosperous and civilized future at just one go.
Boris Yeltsin # Dreams, Experience, Freedom, Failure, Hopes, Communism, Future, Challenging Quotes
"The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property."
- Karl Marx
"Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff."
- Frank Zappa
"Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite."
- John Kenneth Galbraith
"At the end of a century that has seen the evils of communism, Nazism and other modern tyrannies, the impulse to centralize power remains amazingly persistent."
- Joseph Sobran
"Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death."
- Heinrich Heine
"Communism and fascism or nazism, although poles apart in their intellectual content, are similar in this, that both have emotional appeal to the type of personality that takes pleasure in being submerged in a mass movement and submitting to superior authority."
- James A. C. Brown
"For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion."
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn
"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
"Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal."
- Adlai E. Stevenson
"Any power must be an enemy of mankind which enslaves the individual by terror and force, whether it arises under the Fascist or the Communist flag. All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded to the individual."
- Albert Einstein
"Communism teaches and seeks two objectives: unrelenting class warfare and the complete eradication of private ownership."
- Pope Pius XI
"We grow tyrannical fighting tyranny. . . . The most alarming spectacle today is not the spectacle of the atomic bomb in an unfederated world, it is the spectacle of the Americans beginning to accept the device of loyalty oaths and witch hunts, beginning to call anybody they don't like a Communist."
- E. B. White
"I do not believe in Communism any more than you do but there is nothing wrong with the Communists in this country; several of the best friends I have got are Communists."
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English."
- George Bernard Shaw
"Today the primary threat to the liberties of the American people comes not from communism, foreign tyrants or dictators. It comes from the tendency on our own shores to centralize power, to trust bureaucracies rather than people."
- George H. Allen
"If you give the government the right to determine the consumption of the human body, to determine whether one should smoke or not smoke, drink or not drink, there is no good reply you can give to people who say, "More important than the body is the mind and the soul, and man hurts himself much more by reading bad books, by listening to bad music and looking at bad movies. Therefore it is the duty of the government to prevent people from committing those faults. And, as you know, for many hundreds of years governments and authorities believed that it was their duty."
- Ludwig von Mises
"Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals with no cure except as a guillotine might be called a cure for dandruff."
- Clare Boothe Luce
"Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy."
- Mao Tse-Tung
"We must hate - hatred is the basis of communism. Children must be taught to hate their parents if they are not communists."
- Vladimir Ilich Lenin
"In Germany they came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up."
- Martin Niemoeller