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Communism is a cow of many; well milked and badly fed.
-Proverb
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Under Capitalism, man exploits man. Under Communism, it's exactly the opposite.
-Proverb
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Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.
-Clement Attlee
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Socialists make the mistake of confusing individual worth with success. They believe you cannot allow people to succeed in case those who fail feel worthless.
-Kenneth Baker
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Experience has taught me that the shallowest of communist platitudes contains more of a hierarchy of meaning than contemporary bourgeois profundity.
-Walter Benjamin
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Communism is like one big phone company.
-Lenny Bruce
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Communism didn't fall. It was pushed.
-George Herbert Walker Bush, July 2, 1992
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I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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I pass the test that says a man who isn't a socialist at 20 has no heart, and a man who is a socialist at 40 has no head.
-William Casey
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I was a man who was lucky enough to have discovered a political theory, a man who was caught up in the whirlpool of Cuba's political crisis...; discovering Marxism...was like finding a map in the forest.
-Fidel Castro, Speech, Chile, November 18, 1971
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One is a socialist because one used to be one, no longer going to demonstrations, attending meetings, sending in one's dues, in short, without paying.
-Michel De Certeau
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Socialism is like a dream. Sooner or later you wake up to reality.
-Sir Winston Churchill
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The substance of the eminent Socialist gentlemen's speech is that making a profit is a sin. It is my belief that the real sin is taking a loss!
-Sir Winston Churchill
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It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice; I consider the real vice is making losses.
-Sir Winston Churchill
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Socialists think profits are a vice; I consider losses the real vice.
-Sir Winston Churchill
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I will not pretend that if I had to choose between communism and Nazism I would choose communism.
-Sir Winston Churchill
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We would not be interested in human beings if we did not have the hope of someday meeting someone worse off than ourselves.
-E. M. Cioran
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The terrible thing is that one cannot be a Communist and not let oneself in for the shameful act of recantation. One cannot be a Communist and preserve an iota of one's personal integrity.
-Milovan Djilas
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
-Will Durant
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One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.
-Albert Einstein
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What is a Communist? One who has yearnings for equal division of unequal earnings.
-Ebenezer Elliot
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You'll see certain Pythagorean whose belief in communism of property goes to such lengths that they pick up anything lying about unguarded, and make off with it without a qualm of conscience as if it had come to them by law.
-Desiderius Erasmus
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I have no concern with any economic criticisms of the communist system; I cannot inquire into whether the abolition of private property is expedient or advantageous. But I am able to recognize that the psychological premisses on which the system is based are an untenable illusion. In abolishing private property we deprive the human love of aggression of one of its instruments... but we have in no way altered the differences in power and influence which are misused by aggressiveness.
-Sigmund Freud
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Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.
-John Kenneth Galbraith
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Socialism can only arrive by bicycle.
-Jose Antonio Viera Gallo
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Books about Communism
