744 Quotes About Communism
- Author Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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You have to understand the nature of Communism. The very ideology of Communism, all of Lenin's teachings, are that anyone who doesn't take what's lying in front of him is a fool If you can take it, do so. If you can attack, strike. But if there's a wall, retreat. The Communist leaders respect only firmness and have contempt for persons who continually give in to them.
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- Author Lynne Viola
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The peasant rebellion against collectivization was the most serious episode in popular resistance experienced by the Soviet state after the Russian Civil War. In 1930, more than two million peasants took part in 13,754 mass disturbances. In 1929 and 1930, the OGPU recorded 22,887 "terrorists acts" aimed at local officials and peasant activists, more than 1,100 murders.
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- Author Zybejta Beta Metani' Marashi
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Why the congress, president, supreme court justices & government are all exempt from Obama care ? Basicly they are saying "Do what I say and not what I do. Is that is a dictatorship ?
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- Author Arthur Koestler
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You opposed fascism, then you ditched communism.'No, I didn’t. Communism ditched me by turning into Stalinism'.
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- Author Barbara Demick
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Tech-savvy types had figured out how to get around the system. With radios it was easy—open up the set, cut the conveyor belt attached to the dial, and replace it with a rubber band that could turn the dial wherever you liked. Television required a little more expertise.
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- Author A.E. Samaan
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Nazismo = "Nacional Socialismo" Bolshevismo = "Int'l Socialismo"Concordam no Socialismo; discordam nos participantes
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- Author Karl Marx
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Philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it
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- Author Barbara Demick
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Up until that moment, a part of her had hoped that China would be just as poor as North Korea. She still wanted to believe that her country was the best place in the world. The beliefs she had cherished for a lifetime would be vindicated. But now she couldn’t deny what was staring her plainly in the face: dogs in China ate better than doctors in North Korea.
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- Author Barbara Demick
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Her younger son, twenty, was assigned to a factory that made railroad equipment, but since it provided no salary he was actually paying his workplace three dollars per month so he could stay home to help his mother with the pigs and moonshine.
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