Communism Quotes - Page 7

The satellite revolt was not sparked from the West. It was sparked by Communism itself.

On a scale personal enough to be felt by all, but big enough to be symbolic, the two irreconcilable faiths of our time - Communism and Freedom - came to grips in the persons of two conscious and resolute men.

Communism didn't work because people weren't ready for it, it was corrupt, and because it squelched individualism.

Ronald Reagan reignited the American economy, rebuilt the Military, bankrupted the Soviet Union and defeated Soviet Communism. I will do the same thing.

In the US, what passes for Christianity - and it is, to say the least, a highly perverse, possessive individualist and capitalist version of what I would see as Christ's messianic ethical communism, to say the least - is a new civil religion, a civil religion of freedom.

I mean, where I come from, 'communism' is not a terrible word.

There may be community of material possessions, but there can never be community of love or esteem.

Ronald Reagan defeated Soviet communism without firing a shot.

ISIS represents the worst threat to freedom since Communism!

The color of communism was not red but gray.

Communism starts with the proposition that there are no universal truths or general truths of human nature.

Despotism, which we regard with abhorrence, is rather too plausible in decaying feudal, agrarian, pastoral societies. That's why we must expect to have many a defeat before we'll have an ultimate victory in this contest with Communism.

What I experienced in Cuba, I have become a student of what, how communism operates.

I can use the teachings of [Charles] Darwin to promote communism.

"Freedom" is probably the word he said more than any other. He used the word freedom constantly. I think for some his frequent calls for freedom became a cliché because he did it so often. They didn't get it, but Reagan certainly did. He thought deeply about the relationship between God and human freedom and the nonrelationship between atheistic communism and that freedom.

The wonder is that communism lasted so long. But then again, modern poetry lasted a long time, too.

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

"It all came from there," Lech Walesa said, pointing to a TV when a reporter asked him why communism fell.

In Western-style Communism we would have to create an almost imaginary workers' image of themselves as the father-figure.

If science were communism, was it also not possible that communism could itself become a science?

We have nothing against Communism.

Being confident of our own future, we are now free of that inordinate fear of communism which once led us to embrace any dictator who joined us in that fear. I'm glad that that's being changed.

Indeed, if communist central planners could have organized the economy with as much detail, precision, and flexibility as a modern-day Toyota or Wal-Mart, communism would probably still exist.

I don't support communism. I don't like that type of government.

Ladies and gentlemen, communism didn't fall. It was pushed.