#communism

They still possess virtues which might cause shame to most Christians. No hospitals are needed among them, because there are neither mendicants nor paupers as long as there are any rich people among them. Their kindness, humanity, and courtesy not only make them liberal with what they have, but cause them to possess hardly anything except in common. A whole village must be without corn before any individual can be obliged to endure privation. They divide the produce of their fisheries equally with all who come ↗

— Reuben Gold Thwaites

#iroquois #equality

The only way of life satisfying the need of all times must be motivated by incentives and rewards – materially, morally and spiritually because motivation for work is produced by incentives and rewards only, an aspect built into the fundamental specification of human nature itself. Any prescription not recognising this important aspect of life is bound to fail in the life-styles of human beings. ↗

— Mohammed Ali Muhiyaddin

#communism #incentives #materialism #religion #life

Crack-brained meddling by the authorities [can] aggravate an existing crisis. ↗

— Karl Marx

#regulation #socialism #communism

Fascism is the stage reached after communism has proved an illusion. ↗

— Friedrich A. von Hayek

#fascism #communism

Communism is like one big phone company. ↗

— Lenny Bruce

#big #communism #company #like #phone

I know that I am leaving the winning side for the losing side, but it is better to die on the losing side than to live under Communism. ↗

— Whittaker Chambers

#better #communism #die #i #i am

It is popular to call it a crisis of the Western world. It is in fact a crisis of the whole world. Communism, which claims to be a solution of the crisis, is itself a symptom and an irritant of the crisis. ↗

— Whittaker Chambers

#claims #communism #crisis #fact #in fact

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. ↗

— Whittaker Chambers

#big enough #came #communism #conscious #enough

Communism is a proposition to structure the world more reasonably, a proposition for changing the world. As such, we have to analyze it and, if we deem it reasonable, act upon it. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

#analyze #changing #changing the world #communism #deem

It is not what you can do for your country, but what you can do for all of mankind. ↗

— Mike Norton

#buddha #buddha-nature #buddhism #capitalism #communism