#communism

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

— Heinrich Heine

#death #elements #envy #every #hunger

My mother had been educated at a convent, and she had been converted to communism by my father during Stalin's most rampant period, at the beginning of the 1930s. So she had two gods, God in heaven and god on earth. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#beginning #communism #convent #converted #during

When they began, they could not have thought that it would end like this, because their time seemed to them as simple as a flame. We know now that it was a very complicated time and that they were more complicated people than they knew. ↗

— Murray Kempton

#communism

How would that premise stand up if he examined it? That was probably why the Communists were always cracking down on Bohemiansism. When you were drunk or when you committed adultery you recognised your own personal fallability of that so mutable substitute for the apostles' creed, the party line. Down with Bohemianism, the sin of Majakowski. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#communism #drink #morals #religion #religion

Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great. ↗

— Clement Attlee

#child #communism #great #illegitimate #karl

The communism of Marx seeks a strong state centralization, and where this exists, there the parasitic Jewish nation - which speculates upon the labor of people - will always find the means for its existence. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

#centralization #communism #existence #exists #find

Communism is a hateful thing, and a menace to peace and organized government. ↗

— Grover Cleveland

#government #hateful #menace #organized #peace

The trouble with Communism is the Communists, just as the trouble with Christianity is the Christians. ↗

— H.L. Mencken

#communism #religion #religion

Today's Communism can survive only if it abandons the myth of an infallible party, if it continues to think, and if it becomes democratic. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

#communism #continues #democratic #infallible #myth

There will be no communism. ↗

— Francisco Franco

#will