Other than Kicking Russian Communism’s (T_6, :) )Booty!
Come on, let’s think. - Xi
“(Chinese) Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer
which we use to crush the enemy.” - Mao Zedong
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“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 Dürrenmatt, Swiss essayist.
"Communism has never come to power in a country
that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.
- John F. Kennedy, Speech, July 3, 1963, to NATO.
“The clock of communism (in Russia) has stopped striking.
But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down.
For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must
try to save ourselves from being crushed by its rubble.”
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Russian novelist.
“How We Must Rebuild Russia,” opening sentence of essay,
published in Soviet Union’s biggest-selling daily newspaper,
Komosomolskaya Pravda (Sept. 18, 1990).
“A specter is haunting Europe—the specter of communism.”
- Karl Marx, German political theorist, social philosopher,
and Friedrich Engels, German political theorist, social philosopher.
In Karl Marx: Selected Works, vol. 1 (1942).
The Communist Manifesto (1848). Opening sentence.
“Russian Communism is the illegitimate
child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.”
- Clement Attlee, British Prime Minister. Speech, April 11, 1956.
“Those who wait for that must wait
until a shrimp learns to whistle.”
Referring to the possibility of the
Soviet Union rejecting communism.
- Nikita Khrushchev, Soviet premier. speech,
9/17/1955, Moscow. New York Times (9/18/1955).
“It is bad luck for world history that of
all people the Russians adopted Communism,
because they are totally unfit for it.”
- Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Swiss essayist.
“The Marriage of Mr. Mississippi”, pt. I (1952).
“In the end we beat them with Levi 501 jeans. Seventy-two years
of Communist indoctrination and propaganda was drowned out by a
three-ounce Sony Walkman. A huge totalitarian system…has been
brought to its knees because nobody wants to wear Bulgarian
shoes…Now they’re lunch, and we’re number one on the planet.”
- P.J. O’Rourke, journalist. Repr. In Give War a Chance (1992).
“One question that people always ask at home is never asked here:
‘What happened to Communism in Russia?’ Everybody yawns when a
visitor brings it up, because the answer is so obvious to every
Russian. The answer is that there never was Communism in Russia;
there were only communists.” - Arthur Koestler,
Hungarian-born British author. “The Shadow of a Tree”,
pt. 2, The Trail of the Dinosaur (1953).
“For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for
many people in the West, it is still a living lion.”
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Russian novelist. Radio broadcast,
BBC Russian service. Listener (London, Feb. 15, 1979).
“Our fear that Communism might some day take over most of the
world blinds us to the fact that anti-communism already has.”
- Anonymous U.S. Analyst In 1967.
Quoted in “The Uses of Anticommunism,” vol. 21,
published in The Socialist Register (1985).
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I think that cover the best quotes I can find without writing a book. - Xi
