Communist Quotes (158 quotes)

Picture of quotation author Slavoj Zizek
„I - and I still consider myself, I'm sorry to tell you, a Marxist and a Communist, but I couldn't help noticing how all the best Marxist analyses are always analyses of a failure.“
― Slavoj Zizek ―
Picture of quotation author Slavoj Zizek
„Without the communist oppression, I am absolutely sure I would now be a local stupid professor of philosophy in Ljubljana.“
― Slavoj Zizek ―
Picture of quotation author Dasha Zhukova
„The thing is, I grew up in L.A., so I had this unique opportunity to live in both communist Russia and see that life, and then move to America as a young girl and experience a completely different life.“
― Dasha Zhukova ―
Picture of quotation author Robert Winston
„My first vote was for a communist in east London when I was a medical student. But I've voted Tory, Labour and Lib Dem in my time.“
― Robert Winston ―
Picture of quotation author Allen West
„I believe there's about 78 to 81 members of the Democrat Party who are members of the Communist Party. It's called the Congressional Progressive Caucus.“
― Allen West ―
Picture of quotation author Arsene Wenger
„The communist model does not work economically, we all realised that, but the capitalist model in the modern world also looks to be unsustainable.“
― Arsene Wenger ―
Picture of quotation author Max Weber
„The so-called 'materialistic conception of history,' with the crude elements of genius of the early form which appeared, for instance, in the 'Communist Manifesto,' still prevails only in the minds of laymen and dilettantes.“
― Max Weber ―
Picture of quotation author Andrzej Wajda
„One might have thought that the most significant change in the film industry that would come about with a transition from the communist economy to capitalism would fundamentally concern the sources of funding.“
― Andrzej Wajda ―
Picture of quotation author Franjo Tudjman
„All sorts of other lies are being spread today, I do not know what else they will invent. I've heard that I'm of Jewish descent, but I found, I knew of my ancestors in Zagorje from around 350 years ago, and I said, maybe it would be good to have some of that, I guess I would be richer, I might not have become a Communist.“
― Franjo Tudjman ―
Picture of quotation author Shashi Tharoor
„The Chinese, as befits a Communist autocracy, approached the task of dominating the Olympics with top-down military discipline.“
― Shashi Tharoor ―
Picture of quotation author Wislawa Szymborska
„When I was young I had a moment of believing in the Communist doctrine. I wanted to save the world through Communism. Quite soon I understood that it doesn't work, but I've never pretended it didn't happen to me.“
Picture of quotation author Helen Suzman
„Tool of Communist agitators... it's really a joke, isn't it? Because, quite clearly, we are a party of real moderates. It just shows how little they understand.“
― Helen Suzman ―
Picture of quotation author Anne Sullivan
„No matter how mistaken Communist ideas may be, the experience and knowledge gained by trying them out have given a tremendous impetus to thought and imagination.“
― Anne Sullivan ―
Picture of quotation author Oswald Spengler
„There is no proletarian, not even a Communist movement, that has not operated in the interests of money, and for the time being permitted by money - and that without the idealists among its leaders having the slightest suspicion of the fact.“
― Oswald Spengler ―
Picture of quotation author Herbert Spencer
„An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.“
― Herbert Spencer ―
Picture of quotation author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
„I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.“
Picture of quotation author Martin Cruz Smith
„Of course the biggest mafia in Russia has always been the government; in Soviet times, the Communist Party, and now a circle of former KGB and FSB.“
Picture of quotation author Joe Slovo
„Socialism is undoubtedly in the throes of a crisis greater than at any time since 1917. The last half of 1989 saw the dramatic collapse of most of the communist party governments of Eastern Europe.“
― Joe Slovo ―
Picture of quotation author Stellan Skarsgard
„There was a Russian director named Elem Klimov, who did his films during the communist days. They were constantly struggling with the authorities and to be allowed to express themselves. But he did one of the best war movies I've ever seen - it's called 'Come and See.'“
Picture of quotation author George Bernard Shaw
„I am a Christian. That obliges me to be a Communist.“

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