Communism Quotes

If you want to know what life is like in the Soviet Union, go to your local department of motor vehicles.

In all my years in the Army I was never taught that communists were human beings. We were there to kill ideology carried by – I don’t know – pawns, blobs of flesh. I was there to destroy communism. We never conceived of people, men, women, children, babies.

The current (House Un-American Activities Committee) investigations are an incomparably greater danger to our society than those few Communists in the country ever could be. These investigations have already undermined to a considerable extent the democratic character of our society.

We don’t propose to sit here in our rocking chair with our hands folded and let the Communists set up any government in the Western Hemisphere.

When I feed the hungry, they call me a saint. When I ask why they have no food, they call me a Communist.

We face a hostile ideology (communism): global in scope, atheistic in character, ruthless in purpose, and insidious in method.

If we look at the ravages which Communist politics… inflicted on those areas where they were allowed full play – the sheer destruction of resources… the obliteration of morality and truth-telling, the contempt for life, the ubiquitous corruption, the long-term poverty – we have to count as an immeasurable blessing that Marxism took over only […]

I see in Communism the focus of the concentrated evil of our time.

You have broader considerations that might follow what you would call the “falling domino” principle. You have a row of dominoes set up, you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is the certainty that it will go over very quickly. (Explanation as to why Indochina would not be […]

To be a member of the Communist Party is to have a taste of the police state. It is a diluted taste but it is bitter and unforgettable. It is diluted because you can walk out. I got out in the spring of 1936. The question will be asked why I did not tell this […]