Millions of Americans said, ‘We’re not going to pay money to buy tickets to see a picture that is paying a good living to people we believe are dedicated to the overthrow of the country.”(During the “Red Scare”)
Communism Quotes
I’ve got a man traveling with me all the way from New York. From the “New York Times”, that’s the other branch of the “Daily Worker” in New York. This fellow is pro-Communist, too, but he’s a nice fellow who just does what he’s told. (introducing “New York Times” reporter Richard J. H. Johnson, at […]
The West won’t contain communism, it will transcend communism. It won’t bother to denounce it, it will dismiss it as some bizarre chapter in human history whose last pages are even now being written.
I never agree with Communists or any other kind of kept men.
Shoot any civilian suspected of being a communist before they become prisoners.
Communists have no more humor than Christians. No man who believes in apocalypses can possibly bring himself to laugh.
You gentlemen belong with the Alien and Sedition Acts, and you are the nonpatriots, and you are the un-Americans, and you ought to be ashamed of yourselves. (testifying to HUAC, June 12, 1956)
I certainly agree with your feeling about the Communists and Fascists, though I fear I can’t follow your into the arms of (the) Holy Church. All persons who propose to improve the human race seem to me to be equally fraudulent.
Senator Joseph McCarthy only investigated Communist spies working for the government and steadfastly refused to name names, referring instead to the loyalty risks as “Case #1, Case #2, Case #3,” etc. Having been a judge prior to going to Congress, McCarthy loudly insisted that all people were presumed innocent until proven guilty. The Democrats in […]
Wystan Auden reads us some of his new poem in the evening… It interests me particularly as showing, at last, that I belong to an older generation. I follow Auden in his derision of patriotism, class distinctions, comfort, and all the ineptitudes of the middle-classes. But when he also derides the other soft little harmless […]
