Communism
Quotes on Communism
What is a Communist? One who has yearnings For equal division of unequal earnings.
Ebenezer Elliot (1781-1849) English pamphleteer, poet
Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.
Clement Attlee (1883-1967) British Labour politician, prime minister
Communism, being the lay form of Catholicism, and indeed meaning the same thing, has never had any lack of chaplains.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Anglo-Irish playwright, critic
Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) American writer
Send your son to Moscow and he will return an anti-Communist; send him to the Sorbonne and he will return a Communist.
Felix Houphouet-Boigny (b. 1905) President of the Ivory Coast
Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.
John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) American President
Our fear that Communism might someday take over most of the world blinds us to the fact that anti-communism already has.
American analyst, 1967
The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the spectre of Communism.
A. J. P. Taylor (b. 1906) British historian
I detest communism, because it is the negation of liberty . . . I am not a communist because communism concentrates and absorbs all the powers of society into the state.
Mikhail Bakunin (1814-1876) Russian political theorist
Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.
Mao Zedong (1893-1976) founder of the People’s Republic of China
So we, who are united in mind and soul, have no hesitation about sharing property. All is common among us — except our wives.
Tertullian (160-240) Roman theologiaa
