Communism Quotes

Only socialism would put up with it for so long. Capitalism would have gone bankrupt years ago. (Talking of sub-standard workmanship in the Soviet Union)

I don’t see why we need to stand by and watch a country go Communist due to the irresponsibility of its own people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves. (commenting on Chile, prior to Augusto Pinochet’s U.S.-supported / CIA-facilitated military coup against Chile’s democratically-elected […]

The story has spread that in testifying against Mr. Hiss, I am working out some old grudge, or motives of revenge or hatred. I do not hate Mr. Hiss. We were close friends, but we are caught in a tragedy of history. Mr. Hiss represents the concealed enemy against which we are all fighting, and […]

There is literally nothing which the consistent collectivist must not be prepared to do if it serves ‘the good of the whole’.

They say that the Soviet delegates smile. That smile is genuine. It is not artificial. We wish to live in peace, tranquility. But if anyone believes that our smiles involve abandonment of the teaching of Marx, Engels and Lenin he deceives himself poorly. Those who wait for that must wait until a shrimp learns to […]

A shadow has fallen upon the scenes so lately lighted by the Allied victory… From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent.

I’ve always found it easy and pleasant to admire the Reds by merely thinking of their enemies… The Reds I knew always had the finest assortment of Tartufes and junglebellies lined up against them. I never met a greedy, goose-headed boss whose wattles didn’t quiver with rage against the Reds… The crocodile-hided Fords, the Tsaristic […]

Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you.

A communist is like a crocodile: when it opens its mouth you cannot tell whether it is trying to smile or preparing to eat you up.

Communism possesses a language which every people can understand – its elements are hunger, envy, and death.