#communism

My father also told me that he felt free in that little hole in the ground, much freer than he felt outside, where he was always being chased by the criminals of the regime. That freedom came from inside, from his thoughts, from his soul; and nobody could take that from him. ↗

— Teodor Flonta

#life #love #secret-police #transylvania #vampires

Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all. ↗

— Adam Smith

#democracy #freedom #history #hope #individualism

Communism is like one big phone company. ↗

— Lenny Bruce

#big #communism #company #like #phone

Communism will win. ↗

— Slavoj Zizek

#will #win

About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#about #almost #astrology #because #best

Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff. ↗

— Frank Zappa

#communism #like #own #people #stuff

Communism is a monopolistic system, economically and politically. ↗

— Lech Walesa

#economically #politically #system

When I was fighting communism, there was rapid development of satellite television and cell phones, and communism, to survive, would have to block all these information devices. ↗

— Lech Walesa

#cell #cell phones #communism #development #devices

Let's not talk about Communism. Communism was just an idea, just pie in the sky. ↗

— Boris Yeltsin

#communism #idea #just #pie #sky

Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy. ↗

— Mao Zedong

#crush #enemy #hammer #love #use