#communism

Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy. ↗

— Mao Zedong

#crush #enemy #hammer #love #use

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

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

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

The real evil of the Russian communist state is not communism. It is the secret police and the concentration camp. ↗

— John Boyd Orr

#communism #communist #concentration #evil #police

I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened. ↗

— Pat Robertson

#bring #communism #did #down #evil

I spent my life studying communism and Soviet systems. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#i #life #my life #soviet #spent

From a monarchy followed by suffering under Communism, Ethiopians must be given the opportunity to flourish under the greatest of systems - democracy. ↗

— Jack Kingston

#democracy #flourish #followed #given #greatest