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The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the specter of Communism.


A. J. P. Taylor

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MAO ZEDONG Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.
MAO TSE-TUNG Communism was the brain-child of German-Jewish intellectuals
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T. J. MILLER I always thought communism was crap, really.
ALEXEI SAYLE Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.
ADLAI STEVENSON Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.
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SOURCE UNKNOWN A common danger tends to concord. Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak. In Commun...
PIERRE JOSEPH PROUDHON A common danger tends to concord. Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak. In Commun...
PIERRE-JOSEPH PROUDHON It was patriotism, not communism, that inspired me.
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JOHN GREGORY DUNNE Communism will win.
SLAVOJ ZIZEK Communism means barbarism.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Communism means barbarism
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COLIN COTTERILL Communism can't survive the captivating allure of capitalism.
RAND PAUL Democracy is the opposite of totalitarianism, communism, fascism, or mobocracy.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT There will be no communism.
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JACK KEMP Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country.
VLADIMIR LENIN Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country.
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GRANT HESLOV Communism is a cow of many; well milked and badly fed.
PROVERB Communism is a cow of many; well milked and badly fed.
SPANISH PROVERB Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW I see in Communism the focus of the concentrated evil of our time
WHITTAKER CHAMBERS When we thought of taking a stand, we automatically thought of communism.
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HEINRICH HEINE Communism is a society where each one works according to his abilities and gets according to his nee...
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FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, an...
HEINRICH HEINE I never agree with Communists or any other kind of kept men.
H. L. MENCKEN Communism is like Prohibition, it's a good idea but it won't work
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FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT I don't really view communism as a bad thing.
WHOOPI GOLDBERG Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.
CLEMENT ATTLEE Vietnam should have taught us that mindless anti-Communism is not a cause worth killing or dying for...
PETE HAMILL I can understand Communism, but not Socialism.
LAJOS KOSSUTH Communism is in conflict with human nature.
ERNEST RENAN Communism is like one big phone company.
LENNY BRUCE Capitalism is Man Exploiting Man; Communism is just the opposite
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FRANCISCO FRANCO Communism works, if everybody stopped carring about money.
JOHN SMITH Under Capitalism, man exploits man. Under Communism, it's exactly the opposite.
PROVERB Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.
JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.
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P. A. MONSON And when you rub the ball on rump or belly,Remember what it looks like on the telly.
A. P. HERBERT To get profit without risk, experience without danger, and reward without work, is as impossible as ...
A. P. GOUTHEV Not huffy or stuffy, nor tiny or tall, / But fluffy, just fluffy, with no brains at all.
A. P. HERBERT This high official, all allow, is grossly overpaid; there wasn't any Board, and now there isn't any ...
A. P. HERBERT Nothing is wasted, nothing is in vain: / The seas roll over but the rocks remain.
A. P. HERBERT Physical expression and attitude have no age, language, or species barrier."
P. A. MONSON The signs of sociopathy are usually there before we are abused; most of us just don’t know enough ...
P. A. SPEERS #1 Dating Tip: Make Sure Your Date has a Conscience!
P. A. SPEERS Don't send funny greeting cards on birthdays or at Christmas. Save them for funerals, when their...
P. J. O'ROURKE The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on Ne...
P. J. O'ROURKE A man generally has two reasons for doing a thing. One that sounds good, and a real one.
J. P. MORGAN When you expect things to happen - strangely enough - they do happen.
J. P. MORGAN Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do ...
J. P. MORGAN If you have to ask how much it costs, you can't afford it.
J. P. MORGAN No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty...
J. P. MORGAN I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my own.
J. P. DONLEAVY To marry the Irish is to look for poverty.
J. P. DONLEAVY Writing is turning one's worst moments into money.
J. P. DONLEAVY Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don't draft people; it's not jur...
P. J. O'ROURKE My mom is a sculptress.
P. J. HARVEY I'm not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels...
P. J. HARVEY I've always felt that I'm affected by the world, by the way we treat each other, by the way ...
P. J. HARVEY There's also a level of discipline I use as a writer, designed to get better at what I'm doi...
P. J. HARVEY I'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or ...
P. J. HARVEY I did photography, painting, and drawing, but I prefer sculpture. I like it because it's very ph...
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