If we look at the ravages which Communist politics… inflicted on those areas where they were allowed full play – the sheer destruction of resources… the obliteration of morality and truth-telling, the contempt for life, the ubiquitous corruption, the long-term poverty – we have to count as an immeasurable blessing that Marxism took over only […]
Communism Quotes
I see in Communism the focus of the concentrated evil of our time.
You have broader considerations that might follow what you would call the “falling domino” principle. You have a row of dominoes set up, you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is the certainty that it will go over very quickly. (Explanation as to why Indochina would not be […]
To be a member of the Communist Party is to have a taste of the police state. It is a diluted taste but it is bitter and unforgettable. It is diluted because you can walk out. I got out in the spring of 1936. The question will be asked why I did not tell this […]
The Communist vision is the vision of man without God.
What is a Communist? One who hath yearnings For equal division of unequal earnings. Idler or bungler, or both, he is willing To fork out his copper and pocket a shilling.
They (right wing radicals) equate the Democratic Party with the welfare state, the welfare state with socialism, and socialism with communism. They object quite rightly to politics’ intruding on the military – but they are anxious for the military to engage in politics.
Every sincere break with Communism is a religious experience, though the Communists fail to identify its true nature, though he fail to go to the end of the experience. His break is the political expression of the perpetual need of the soul whose first faint stirring he has felt within him, years, months or days […]
Just as Marx used to say about the French “Marxists” of the late seventies: “All I know is that I am not a Marxist.”
Unlike Communists, traditional autocrats… do not disturb the habitual rhythms of work and leisure, habitual places of residence, habitual patterns of family and personal relations.
