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quotes by topic Communism

" Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English. "

George Bernard Shaw

English , Socialism , Communism

" The Cold War isn't thawing; it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isn't sleeping; it is, as always, plotting, scheming, working, fighting. "

Richard M. Nixon

War , Communism , Fighting

" Communism begins where atheism begins. "

Communism , Atheism

" Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. "

Martin Luther King Jr

Democracy , Communism

" The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent. "

Martin Luther King Jr

Democracy , Communism

" Those who reject Christianity will not be moved by Christ‚Äôs statement that poverty is blessed. But here a rather remarkable fact comes to my aid. Those who would most scornfully repudiate Christianity as a mere ‚Äòopiate of the people‚Äô have a contempt for the rich, that is, for all mankind except the poor. They regard the poor as the only people worth preserving from ‚Äòliquidation‚Äô, and place in them the only hope for the human race. But this is not compatible with a belief that the effects of poverty on those who suffer it are wholly evil; it even implies that they are good. The Marxist thus finds himself in real agreement with the Christian in those two beliefs which Christianity paradoxically demands ‚Äì that poverty is blessed and yet ought to be removed. "

Christianity , Communism

" Those who had fought for what they called the revolution maintained a great pride: the pride of being on the correct side of the front lines. Ten or twelve years later (around the time of our story) the front lines began to melt away, and with them the correct side. No wonder the former supporters of the revolution feel cheated and are quick to seek substitute fronts; thanks to religion they can (in their role as atheists struggling against believers) stand again on the correct side and retain their habitual and precious sense of their own superiority.But to tell the truth, the substitute front was also useful to others, and it will perhaps not be too premature to disclose that Alice was one of them. Just as the directress wanted to be on the correct side, Alice wanted to be on the opposite side. During the revolution they had nationalized her papa's shop, and Alice hated those who had done this to him. But how should she show her hatred? Perhaps by taking a knife and avenging her father? But this sort of thing is not the custom in Bohemia. Alice had a better means for expressing her opposition: she began to believe in God. "

Communism , Atheism

" Who was the real me? I can only repeat: I was a man of many faces.At meetings I was earnest, enthusiastic, and committed; among friends, unconstrained and given to teasing; with Marketa, cynical and fitfully witty; and alone (and thinking of Marketa), unsure of myself and as agitated as a schoolboy.Was the last face the real one?No. They were all real: I was not a hypocrite, with one real face and several false ones. I had several faces because I was young and didn‚Äôt know who I was or wanted to be. (I was frightened by the differences between one face and the next; none of them seemed to fit me properly, and I groped my way clumsily among them.) "

Communism , czech

" Then the glow grew brighter: a holographic golden sickle with a few sheaves of wheat, rotating just above Meg McCaffrey.A boy in the crowd gasped. "She's a communist! "

Communism

" Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature made them. "

Bertrand Russell

Democracy , Communism

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