Top 337 Communists Quotes & Sayings

The communists have lost the cold war, but the west has not yet won it.

There does exist and has existed for a generation, an international Anglophile network which operates, to some extent, in the way the radical Right believes the Communists act. In fact, this network, which we may identify as the Round Table groups, has no aversion to cooperating with the Communists, or any other groups, and frequently does so. I know of the operations of this network because I have studied it for 20 years and was permitted for two years, in the early 1960s, to examine its papers and secret record.

In 1949 - my father stayed on in Shanghai after the war. But in 1949, the Communists took over the whole of China, and in fact, my father was caught by the Communists in Shanghai. And he was there for about a year until he was finally able to get out.

Communists are the last optimists.

Only Communists and Social Democrats who acted against the state were incarcerated. Most of the Communists and Social Democrats I had known became Nazis later. Only those who were doing anything against the state were thrown in concentration camps.

The A.N.C. is a national movement. We all - Communists and non-Communists alike - want a nonracial, democratic, united South Africa.

I lived under the Nazis and under the Communists.

The believing mind reaches its perihelion in the so-called Liberals. They believe in each and every quack who sets up his booth inthe fairgrounds, including the Communists. The Communists have some talents too, but they always fall short of believing in the Liberals.

In the end, we lost IndoChina to the communists. But we did not lose Southeast Asia.

Communists have become bureaucrats. If anything will destroy us, it is this.

The communists pave the way for him (the Jew).

When you come from a family of communists and you go through your teenage rebellion, what's the best way of rebelling from a family of communists? Well, I put on a suit and tie and became a capitalist... There was nothing I could do to upset my family more than that.

I will never vote Democrat again, they are Communists.

For years after I resigned, I was still faithful to their way of thinking. But not in the American Communists.

The first thing the communists do when they take over a country is to outlaw cockfighting

[Russians would like to] undermine the West and its institutions, create doubts about NATO, create doubts about the European Union, support nationalists on the right just as the Soviet communists supported communists on the left. Weaken the West in general and create an atmosphere in which we`re uncertain about ourselves.

Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.

The way I understand it is the communists are in, the atheists are in, the agnostics are in, but religion is out.

The Communists offer one precious, fatal boon: they take away the sense of sin.

I wonder if Communists occupied in producing plays are not safer than Communists starving to death. I have always felt that whatever your beliefs might be, if you could earn enough to keep body and soul together and had to be pretty busy doing that, you would not be very apt to have time to plot the overthrow of any existing government.

Don't listen to what the Communists say, but look at what they do.

The communists saw what we did in the arts as the only product of socialism that was known in the West, so they tolerated it.

The exemplary vanguard role of the Communists is of vital importance. Communists in the Eighth Route and New Fourth Armies should set an example in fighting bravely, carrying out orders, observing discipline, doing political work and fostering internal unity and solidarity.

American Communists have the opportunity to preach freely their ideas. It would be absolutely wrong to hold the Soviet government responsible for activities of the American Communists.

I knew people who were real Communists but never made it onto the blacklist and kept on working. There were also people reputed to be Communists who weren't.

The best way to make Communists is to put the Americans into a place where there were no Communists before.

The aims of anarchists and true communists are identical.

Christians are supposed to love each other. Communists are supposed to share bonds with all proletarians and other communists. Every ideological group proclaims universality, and all of them bicker internally, never displaying unity except in the face of a common enemy. Humanism today is the common enemy of Christians.

The time has come for everybody -capitalists, communists, socialists- to ask themselves what 'civilization' really means. If not, whether a country calls itself capitalist or communists, in the pursuit of 'progress' , it will visit genocide either on its own people or on another people whose country must be plundered for resources to feed the Progress industry.

We ought to really at least recognize the common predicament of Communists and democrats - or Americans, whatever.

First of all, it is clear that our efforts in Korea can blunt the will of the Chinese Communists to continue the struggle. The United Nations forces have put up a tremendous fight in Korea and have inflicted very heavy casualties on the enemy. Our forces are stronger now than they have been before. These are plain facts which may discourage the Chinese Communists from continuing their attack.

Communists have always viewed the national question through the prism of the class struggle, believing that its solution has to be subordinated to the interests of the Revolution, to the interests of socialism. That is why Communists and all fighters for socialism believe that the main aspect of the national question is unification of the working people, regardless of their national origin, in the common struggle against every type of oppression, and for a new social system which rules out exploitation of the working people.

Most of the Communists I knew were nice people.

We are not communists.

Communists must be ready at all times to stand up for the truth, because truth is in the interests of the people; Communists must be ready at all times to correct their mistakes, because mistakes are against the interests of the people.

The Communists have no need to introduce free love; it has existed almost from time immemorial.

Communists are great capitalists, so there is no threat anymore.

Communists have no respect for people, only for positions.

The DMK and the Communists may have the habit of lying, but I don't come from a family that lies.

What's surprising is that the people who fought against torture here are the communists.

In dealing with the Communists, remember that in their mind what is secret is serious, and what is public is merely propaganda.

I do not intend to allow the Senate to rubber-stamp the president's plan to reward the Chinese Communists.

Well, It's a Communist country, and the Communists do not reward personal initiative...except by execution.

The final conflict will be between the Communists and the ex-Communists.

I do not believe in communism any more than you do but there is nothing wrong with the Communists in this country. Several of the best friends I have got are Communists.

The American Indians were Communists. They were. Every anthropologist will tell you they were Communists. No rich, no poor. If somebody needed something the community chipped in.

Communists are frustrated capitalists.

The American Communists had thrived as champions of domestic reform.

I never agree with Communists or any other kind of kept men.

Speaking as a human being, not as a businessman - the unions are great. The unions are great for the working people because they protect you, but I didn't see them that way as a young man. First of all, the papers would connect them with thee communists - labor unions were communists.

Communists disavow the existence of God and religion. They hate it, because it's a competitor.

I'm a Red-baiter; I'm a witch-hunter if the witches are Communists.

There is no room for communists in Kenya.

We Communists must be able to integrate ourselves with the masses in all things. If our Party members spend their whole lives sitting indoors and never go out to face the world and brave the storm, what good will they be to the Chinese people? None at all, and we do not need such people as Party members. We Communists ought to face the world and brave the storm the great world of mass struggle and the mighty storm of mass struggle.

I was even superior to the Communists and when they didn't go along with me, I quit them.

Where have we come as a country, when loving the Constitution, being a patriot, loving Jesus is extremist? Let me tell you what I think is extreme, is a president who was raised by communists, taught by communists, who was supported by communists, and whose self-appointed, self-admitted heroes are communists. And that, I think, is un-American.

I address myself to the Communists, to those Communists who were prompted to join the Party by the progressive ideas of mankind and socialism, and not by selfish personal interests - let us represent our pure and just ideas by pure and just means.

We Communists have to string along with the capitalists for a while. We need their agriculture and their technology.

In the political jargon of those days, the word "intellectual" was an insult. It indicated someone who did not understand life and was cut off from the people. All the Communists who were hanged at the time by other Communists were awarded such abuse. Unlike those who had their feet solidly on the ground, they were said to float in the air. So it was fair, in a way, that as punishment the ground was permanently pulled out from under their feet, that they remained suspended a little above the floor.

The Communists automatically violated the daily practices of democracy to which I was accustomed.