Communism Quotes

They say that the Soviet delegates smile. That smile is genuine. It is not artificial. We wish to live in peace, tranquility. But if anyone believes that our smiles involve abandonment of the teaching of Marx, Engels and Lenin he deceives himself poorly. Those who wait for that must wait until a shrimp learns to […]

A shadow has fallen upon the scenes so lately lighted by the Allied victory… From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent.

I’ve always found it easy and pleasant to admire the Reds by merely thinking of their enemies… The Reds I knew always had the finest assortment of Tartufes and junglebellies lined up against them. I never met a greedy, goose-headed boss whose wattles didn’t quiver with rage against the Reds… The crocodile-hided Fords, the Tsaristic […]

Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you.

A communist is like a crocodile: when it opens its mouth you cannot tell whether it is trying to smile or preparing to eat you up.

Communism possesses a language which every people can understand – its elements are hunger, envy, and death.

Half-starved people, lacking the bare necessities of life, attended meetings at which they repeated the government’s lies about how well off they were, and in a bizarre way they half-believed what they were saying… Truth, they knew, was a Party matter, and therefore lies became true even if they contradicted the plain facts of experience. […]

My son is twenty-two years old. If he had not become a Communist at twenty-two I would have disowned him. If he is still a Communist at thirty, I will do it then.

Workers of the world, awaken! Rise in all your splendid might; Take the wealth that you are making – It belongs to you by right. No one for bread will be crying, We’ll have freedom, love and health, When the grand red flag is flying In the Worker’s commonwealth.

A friend of mine was at a public meeting when an open Communist, one of the speakers’ platform, said that American policy would result in atom bombs on London. “Who’ll drop those bombs?” my friend asked. And answer came there none.