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)
Communism Quotes
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 […]
Communism was the brain-child of German-Jewish intellectuals.
We may be likened to two scorpions in a bottle, each capable of killing the other, but only at the risk of his own life.
Communism is like Prohibition, it’s a good idea but it won’t work.
The communists must be prepared to make every sacrifice and, if necessary, even resort to all sorts of cunning schemes and stratagems, to employ illegal methods, to evade and conceal the truth… The practical part of communist policy is to incite one (enemy) against another… We communists must use one country against another. . . […]
Communism was the notion that, if you took everything away from the people and made them go sit in Siberia, people would behave like perfect little angels. Communism was hell’s own time-out, Mom being Joseph Stalin. . . Then there was communism’s weak-tea sister, socialism. Socialists maintained that we should take all the money away […]
The economy of communism is an economy which grows in an atmosphere of misery and want.
