"Sometimes you have to pick the Gun up to put the Gun down"
— Malcolm X

"If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again."
— Malcolm X

"Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff."
— Frank Zappa

"You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker"
— Malcolm X

"Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners."
— Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

"The first duty of a man is to think for himself"
— José Martí

"From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs."
— Karl Marx

"The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too."
— Malcolm X

"The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!"
— Albert Einstein

"Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures."
— Leon Trotsky

"When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist."
— Hélder Câmara

"The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.
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— Leon Trotsky

"Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle."
— Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

"The world would not be in such a snarl, had Marx been Groucho instead of Karl."
— Irving Berlin

"Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man.
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— Bertrand Russell

"Without Revolutionary theory, there can be no Revolutionary Movement."
— Vladimir Lenin

"A child who does not think about what happens around him and is content with living without wondering whether he lives honestly is like a man who lives from a scoundrel's work and is on the road to being a scoundrel."
— José Martí

"Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

"Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.
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— - Doug Larson

"Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war."
— Norman Mailer

"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

"But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to build up over whole centuries the indignation of a pious spirit, with its natural following of oppressed souls, will cast down with a single shove.
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— José Martí

"The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

"Unity is a great thing and a great slogan. But what the workers’ cause needs is the unity of Marxists, not unity between Marxists, and opponents and distorters of Marxism."
— Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

"An army of the people is invincible!"
— Mao Zedong (Quotations From Chairman Mao Tse-Tung)

"I knew I was alone in a way that no earthling has ever been before."
— Michael Collins

"Als it is hard for America to fight wars in the name of freedom, if those people themselves choose for nonfreedom. Can America and England save India from communism, if they vote communist themselves."
— Oswald Mosley (Ich glaube an Europa: Ein Weg aus der Krise, eine Einführung in das europäische Denken)

"The trouble with Communism is the Communists, just as the trouble with Christianity is the Christians."
— H.L. Mencken

""Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.""
— Malcolm X

"How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin."
— Ronald Reagan

"I have dedicated my life to fight against the heinous rottenness of modern capitalism because it robs the laborer of this world's goods. But blow for blow I shall strike against Communism, because it robs us of the next world's happiness."
— Charles E. Coughlin

""The individual is handicapped by coming face to face
with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists.''

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— -- J. Edgar Hoover

"Someone that you have deprived of everything is no longer in your power. He is once again entirely free. "
— Alexander Solzhenitsyn

"[T]he heart is a very unreliable coinpass, and even will and knowledge, as all ideological factors in general, are not to be trusted as guides if they are without any material basis…. [I]t is not love nor help which is the guiding rule of our time, but hammer or anvil. In reality it is thus: who does not want to be a servant must try to become a master. Under such conditions it is idle to hope that people will sacrifice realities for ideal precepts. We are not sentimental enough to expect such things. Though we use moral arguments in our struggle against the bourgeois, we do all we can to stimulate our class consciousness."
— Joseph Dietzgen

"In a way, the world−view of the Party imposed itself most successfully on people incapable of understanding it. They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was demanded of them, and were not sufficiently interested in public events to notice what was happening. By lack of understanding they remained sane. They simply swallowed everything, and what they swallowed did them no harm, because it left no residue behind, just as a grain of corn will pass undigested through the body of a bird."
— George Orwell (1984)

"I would say, if you like, that the party is like an out-moded mathematics...that is to say, the mathematics of Euclid. We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline."
— Alain Badiou (The Concept of Model: An Introduction to the Materialist Epistemology of Mathematics)

"They still possess virtues which might cause shame to most Christians. No hospitals are needed among them, because there are neither mendicants nor paupers as long as there are any rich people among them. Their kindness, humanity, and courtesy not only make them liberal with what they have, but cause them to possess hardly anything except in common. A whole village must be without corn before any individual can be obliged to endure privation. They divide the produce of their fisheries equally with all who come"
— Reuben Gold Thwaites (The Jesuit Relations And Allied Documents: Travels And Explorations Of The Jesuit Missionaries In North America 1610-1791)

"Totaal ongeschikt voor het nieuwe leven, zoals dat in de Sovjet-Unie onder deskundige dwang beoefend wordt, en misschien zelfs voor zachtere probeersels. Als ik er maar aan denk dat het kommunisme mijn boeken zou willen verdelen! Alles wat men wil: mijn kleren, mijn geld, waarom niet? en als iedereen er een beetje groezelig en armoeiïg uit moest zien, zou ik ook daar geen bezwaar tegen hebben; maar mijn boeken! speciaal versneden en over het algemeen waardeloos gemaakt, maar met hoeveel zorg gekozen "door de eeuwen heen", gestoken in blauw linnen met blauw leren etiket en beschermd door zwarte hulzen, mijn exemplaren van Stendhal en Gide - en dat alles stomweg verdeeld onder mensen die er zowat niets aan zouden hebben, alleen omdat het nieuwe regiem dat verordonneert! Ik hoop dan de moed te vinden om meteen te sneuvelen vóór mijn bibliotheek, na een paar van die nieuwe broeders te hebben opgeruimd."
— E. du Perron (De smalle mens)

"[It is b]etter to die on the losing side than to live under communisim."
— Whittaker Chambers

"Here's your first problem," he said, pointing at a sentence. "'Religion is the opium of the people.' Well, I don't know about people, but I think you'll find that the opium of pirates is actual opium."
— Gideon Defoe (The Pirates! In an Adventure with Communists: A Novel)

"Why do people have memories? It would be easier to die - anything to stop remembering."
— Vasily Grossman (Life and Fate)

"...I take as a point of departure the possibility and desirability of a fundamentally different form of society--call it communism, if you will--in which men and women, freed from the pressures of scarcity and from the insecurity of everyday existence under capitalism, shape their own lives. Collectively they decide who, how, when, and what shall be produced."
— Michael Burawoy (Manufacturing Consent: Changes in the Labor Process Under Monopoly Capitalism)

"State ownership! It leads only to absurd and monstrous conclusions; state ownership means state monopoly, concentrated in the hands of one party and its adherents, and that state brings only ruin and bankruptcy to all."
— Benito Mussolini

"'And you spend your day going around from the house of the washerman to the house of the sweeper, asking about this one's son and that one's nephew, but spending no time with your own family. It is no secret that many people here think that you are a communist.'

Rasheed reflected that this probably meant only that he loathed the poverty and injustice endemic to the village, and that he made no particular secret of it."
— Vikram Seth (A Suitable Boy: A Novel)

""we are all involved: those who have created, in a greater or smaller way, this scheme, those who accepted in silence and all those who have become used to it subconsciously”"
— Václav Havel