The last years of fading communism provided an ideal environment for Poland’s Catholic Church, which acted as an umbrella for dissenters of all sorts. – Norman Davies
The major reason for Keynes’s rejection of communism was simply that he could scarcely identify with the grubby proletariat. – Murray Rothbard
Communism feeds on aggression, hatred, and the imprisonment of men’s minds and souls. This shall not take root in the United States. – Emanuel Celler
We started filming in 1993 which was only four years after the fall of communism. The difference in Budapest over the last five years has been remarkable. – Derek Jacobi
Communism is a proposition to structure the world more reasonably, a proposition for changing the world. As such, we have to analyze it and, if we deem it reasonable, act upon it. – Friedrich Durrenmatt
We believe firmly that Communism internally and externally can and must be fought without resort to the Communist tactics of the suppression of all individual freedom. – Emanuel Celler
I don’t know nothing about communism. But I know the Albanians loved me. Same reason as anyone else loves me. Because I made them laugh. – Norman Wisdom
We didn’t take the words of Vladimir Lenin seriously until Communism spread across the globe. And unfortunately, the president didn’t take the words of groups like ISIS seriously until they established a sweeping self-proclaimed Islamic Caliphate. – Mike McCaul
Vietnam should have taught us that mindless anti-Communism is not a cause worth killing or dying for in a world in which Communism is hardly a monolithic force. – Pete Hamill
The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas – fascism, communism, the atomic bomb. – P. J. O’Rourke
Although one of the key justifications for the Vietnam war was to prevent the spread of communism, the U.S. defeat was to produce nothing of the kind: apart from the fact that Cambodia and Laos became embroiled, the effects were essentially confined to Vietnam. – Martin Jacques
Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements. – Nelson Mandela
Labour was always aligned with the U.S. during the Cold War, but the ignominious implosion of communism reinforced the belief that no alternative to the prevailing common sense was possible. – Martin Jacques
In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy. – Fran Lebowitz
No one should suffer from the great delusion that any form of communism or socialism which promotes the dictatorship of the few instead of the initiative of the millions can produce a happier or more prosperous society. – Charles E. Wilson
Communism was something so hideous that you had to be an exceptional conformist or a fool not to see the evil around you. – Donald Tusk
From its inception, South Vietnam was only considered to be an outpost in the war against communism. – Nguyen Cao Ky
Even now we feel that Stalin was devoted to Communism, he was a Marxist, this cannot and should not be denied. – Nikita Khrushchev
We need do no more than repeat: only under communism does the individual become himself and lead his own life. – Johann Most
Communism may be over as an economic system, but as a model of state domination, it is very much alive in the People’s Republic of China and in Putin’s police state. – Michael Ignatieff