Communism Quotes - Page 2

There is only a certain amount of wealth in the world, this thinking goes. Economics is a matter of acquiring and allocating, not creating. This was the view of the world’s smartest people, all top philosophers and not stupid people, for many thousands of years before the age of the enlightenment. It still is.

The trouble with Communism is the Communists, just as the trouble with Christianity is the Christians.

How would that premise stand up if he examined it? That was probably why the Communists were always cracking down on Bohemiansism. When you were drunk or when you committed adultery you recognised your own personal fallability of that so mutable substitute for the apostles' creed, the party line. Down with Bohemianism, the sin of Majakowski.

Crowned heads, wealth and privilege may well tremble should ever again the Black and Red unite!"
-after the split between Anarchists and Marxists in 1872

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.

Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.

Workingmen of all countries unite!

It is not what you can do for your country, but what you can do for all of mankind.

State ownership! It leads only to absurd and monstrous conclusions; state ownership means state monopoly, concentrated in the hands of one party and its adherents, and that state brings only ruin and bankruptcy to all.

If the Communists win Europe and a large part of the world, it will not be because they know how to stir up discontent or how to infect people with hatred, but because they know how to preach hope.

The race will find that capitalists and communists modify themselves so much during the ages that they end by being indistinguishable as democrats...

It's not your enemies who condemn you to solitude, it's your friends

Without anarchy, there would be chaos.

Deep pockets and empty hearts rule the world. We unleash them at our peril.

Liberty should be understood as freedom from the government, specifically, freedom from the initiation of physical force by the government.

The paralysis of potential is essential to the manufacturing of victims.

If people call me Christian, not from the standpoint of religion but from the standpoint of social vision, I declare that I am a Christian.

Socialism always produces evil results, no matter one's intentions.

Socialism is a monster, which will die.

Europeans have sometimes been beguiled by a despotism that comes concealed in the seductive form of an ideal – as it did in the cases of Hitler and Stalin. This fact may remind us that the possibility of despotism is remote neither in space nor in time.

When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.