How do you tell a communist? Well, it’s someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It’s someone who understands Marx and Lenin. Ronald Reagan
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. Winston Churchill.
Communism possesses a language which every people can understand–its elements are hunger, envy, and death. Heinrich Heine
Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity – in short, of tyranny – and it is committed to making tyranny universal. Adlai Stevenson
I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either. Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Communism is like Prohibition, it’s a good idea but it won’t work. Will Rogers
Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice. Adlai E. Stevenson
Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy. Mao Tse Tung
Communism is a society where each one works according to his abilities and gets according to his needs. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Communism means barbarism. James Russell Lowell
Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great. Clement Attlee
A strange, a perverted creed that has a queer attraction both for the most primitive and for the most sophisticated societies. Harold Macmillan (on communism)
Every Communist must grasp the truth: ‘Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.’ Mao Zedong
Communism is inequality, but not as property is. Property is exploitation of the weak by the strong. Communism is exploitation of the strong by the weak. Pierre Joseph Proudhon
Nature has no cure for this sort of madness, though I have known a legacy from a rich relative work wonders. F E Smith (on Bolshevism)
It is necessary to be able to withstand all this, to agree to any and every sacrifice, and even – if need be – to resort to all sorts of stratagems, manoeuvres and illegal methods, to evasion and subterfuges in order to penetrate the trade unions, to remain in them, and to carry on Communist work in them at all costs. Lenin