744 Quotes About Communism

The Marxist promise that the state will "wither away" is like the guys promise that he will only insert the tip.

I felt lost in this maze. In the world into which Gavrila was initiating me, human aspirations and expectations were entangled with each other like the roots and branches of great trees in a thick forest, each tree struggling for more moisture from the soil and more sunshine from the sky.

In the history of the twentieth century, the principal dramatis personae were National and International Socialisms, better known as Nazism and Communism. Their citizens evaded the duty of self-responsibility by claiming to be "following orders." Following orders -attributed to or issued by God, the State, Science, Medicine-is always the easy way out. Refusing to do so requires self-reliance and resisting temptations and threats.

It's easy to start a rumor. Much harder to stop it.

The word 'more' on the bottom corner of a poster, which he knew at once would read in full 'Life has become better, more cheerful!' Those posters were all over the place. The slogan advertised Soviet Champagne. Or the existence of Soviet Champagne advertised the slogan, he wasn't sure which.

Aresztowanie Gomułki w latach stalinizmu zmazywało przynajmniej częściowo jego wcześniejsze zbrodnie. To prawda, komunista, odpowiedzialny za powojenne bezeceństwa, ale przecież sam też przez komunistów szykanowany. Przez te lata w odosobnieniu znalazł się po stronie cierpiących Polaków. Na nikogo lepszego wówczas nie mogli liczyć.

Od samego początku, gdy tylko partia zagarnęła władzę nad Polską, Gomułka szukał swojej drogi. Właśnie samo poszukiwanie najbardziej odróżniało go od myślącej jak wspólna masa reszty towarzyszy. Przez pomyłkę można by nawet pomyśleć, że Gomułka był demokratą. Nic jednak bardziej błędnego. Był komunistą. Bezgranicznie przekonanym do swojej idei. Z natury dobrym człowiekiem, który uważa, że wie lepiej od innych, co dla nich dobre.

A faith is not acquired by reasoning. One does not fall in love with a woman, or enter the womb of a church, as a result of logical persuasion. Reason may defend an act of faith-but only after the act has been committed, and the man com­mitted to the act.

But the subordination must be to the armed vanguard of all the exploited, of all the toilers, i.e., to the proletariat. Measures must be taken at once, overnight, to substitute for the specific methods of "official administration" by state officials the simple functions of "workmen and managers," functions which are already fully within the capacity of the average city dweller and can well be performed for "workmen's wages.