#communism

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

Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world. ↗

— Earl Warren

#contagious #force #liberty #most #world

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

— Mao Zedong

#crush #enemy #hammer #love #use

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

— Heinrich Heine

#death #elements #envy #every #hunger

My mother had been educated at a convent, and she had been converted to communism by my father during Stalin's most rampant period, at the beginning of the 1930s. So she had two gods, God in heaven and god on earth. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#beginning #communism #convent #converted #during

When they began, they could not have thought that it would end like this, because their time seemed to them as simple as a flame. We know now that it was a very complicated time and that they were more complicated people than they knew. ↗

— Murray Kempton

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Communism is a hateful thing, and a menace to peace and organized government. ↗

— Grover Cleveland

#government #hateful #menace #organized #peace

Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#capitalism #communism #exploits #just #man

In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

#communism #country #democracy #over #soviet

Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country. ↗

— Vladimir Lenin

#country #plus #power #soviet #whole