COMMUNISM QUOTES IV

quotations about communism

If property is impossible on account of the desire to accumulate, communism would soon become so through the desire to shirk.

PIERRE-JOSEPH PROUDHON

What Is Property?


In spite of its glowing talk about the welfare of the masses, Communism's methods and philosophy strip man of his dignity and worth, leaving him as little more than a depersonalized cog in the ever-turning wheel of the state.

MARTIN LUTHER KING

JR., Strength to Love


Communism is based on an ethical relativism and a metaphysical materialism that no Christian can accept.

MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

Paul's Letter to American Christians, November 4, 1956


I am not a Communist, because Communism concentrates and swallows up in itself for the benefit of the State all the forces of society, because it inevitably leads to the concentration of property in the hands of the State, whereas I want the abolition of the State.

MIKHAIL BAKUNIN

attributed, Mikhail Bakunin


Communism is not always equality; but it is more so than property is. In communism inequality springs from placing mediocrity on a level with excellence.

PIERRE-JOSEPH PROUDHON

attributed, Day's Collacon


The reason that communism is the greatest evil is simple: Communism is the greatest enemy of personal responsibility ever invented. Communism waters down and diminishes personal accomplishments. Once one sees this clearly, seemingly inexplicable communist-driven policies make sense. Every communist policy--from the minimum wage to single-payer health care to rent control--is designed to minimize and thwart personal responsibility.

TREVOR LOUDON

"Why Is Communism Evil?"


We communists are like seeds and the people are the soil. Wherever we go, we must unite with the people, take root and blossom among them.

MAO ZEDONG

Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedung


There are certain types of people who are political out of a kind of religious reason ... I think it's fairly common among socialists: They are, in fact, God-seekers, looking for the kingdom of God on earth. A lot of religious reformers have been like that, too. It's the same psychological set, trying to abolish the present in favor of some better future -- always taking it for granted that there is a better future. If you don't believe in heaven, then you believe in socialism. When I was in my real Communist phase, I and the people around me really believed -- but, of course, this makes us certifiable -- that something like 10 years after World War II, the world would be Communist and perfect.

DORIS LESSING

"Doris Lessing on Feminism, Communism and Space Fiction", New York Times Book Review, July 25, 1982


Communism is the dream of fools.

C. R. SUMNER

attributed, Day's Collacon


Communism has sometimes succeeded as a scavenger, but never as a leader. It has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.

JOHN F. KENNEDY

speech at NATO Headquarters in Naples, Italy, July 2, 1963


A Communist should have largeness of mind and he should be staunch and active, looking upon the interests of the revolution as his very life and subordinating his personal interests to those of the revolution; always and everywhere he should adhere to principle and wage a tireless struggle against all incorrect ideas and actions, so as to consolidate the collective life of the Party and strengthen the ties between the Party and the masses; he should be more concerned about the Party and the masses than about any individual, and more concerned about others than about himself. Only thus can he be considered a Communist.

MAO ZEDONG

"Combat Liberalism", Sep. 7, 1937


Communism is like prohibition, it's a good idea but it won't work.

WILL ROGERS

The Autobiography of Will Rogers


When everything belongs to everyone, nobody will take care of anything.

ANDRE GIDE

attributed, Thoughts for Meaningful Life


In the social equation, the value of a single life is nil; in the cosmic equation, it is infinite... Not only communism, but any political movement which implicitly relies on purely utilitarian ethics, must become a victim to the same fatal error. It is a fallacy as naïve as a mathematical teaser, and yet its consequences lead straight to Goya's Disasters, to the reign of the guillotine, the torture chambers of the Inquisition, or the cellars of the Lubianka.

ARTHUR KOESTLER

The Invisible Writing


Property is the exploitation of the weak by the strong. Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak.

PIERRE-JOSEPH PROUDHON

What Is Property?


Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.

ADLAI STEVENSON

speech, 1951


Money, not work, is the banner of communism.

JAMES WHITE

attributed, Day's Collacon


Property is theft.

PIERRE-JOSEPH PROUDHON

What Is Property?


Communism is a strange, a perverted creed that has a queer attraction both for the most primitive and for the most sophisticated societies.

HAROLD MACMILLAN

attributed, And I Quote


The trouble with Communism is the Communists, just as the trouble with Christianity is the Christians. They really do not believe in it and hence are hypocrites. All of them pant for money and hope to collar it by changing the rules. Thus fundamental false pretense colors their whole propaganda.

H. L. MENCKEN

Life Magazine, Aug. 5, 1946