• Democracy is indispensable to socialism.

  

  Vladimir Lenin

  LeaderRussian1870 · 19th century

  5.0 · 64 votes · 45 reads

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• Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle. The modern industrial proletariat does not belong to the category of such classes.

  

  Vladimir Lenin

  LeaderRussian1870 · 19th century

  3.2 · 52 votes · 129 reads

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• Experience has taught me that the shallowest of communist platitudes contains more of a hierarchy of meaning than contemporary bourgeois profundity.

  

  Walter Bagehot

  EconomistBritish1826 · 19th century

  4.8 · 14 votes · 151 reads

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• For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion.

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  Alexander Solzhenitsyn

  NovelistRussian1918 · 20th century

  3.8 · 44 votes · 133 reads

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• Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

  

  Vladimir Lenin

  LeaderRussian1870 · 19th century

  3.2 · 44 votes · 187 reads

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• Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.

  

  Vladimir Lenin

  LeaderRussian1870 · 19th century

  3.4 · 43 votes · 187 reads

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• I am a Marxist Leninist and I will be one until the last day of my life.

  

  Fidel Castro

  PoliticianCuba1926 · 20th century

  4.1 · 29 votes · 180 reads

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• I am a Marxist... of the Groucho tendency.

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  Anonymous

  4.1 · 46 votes · 5 reads

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• I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.

  

  Fidel Castro

  PoliticianCuba1926 · 20th century

  4.7 · 19 votes · 30 reads

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• I believe, as Lenin said, that this revolutionary chaos may yet crystallize into new forms of life.

  

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  PoliticianRussian1931 · 20th century

  4.3 · 40 votes · 138 reads

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• I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves.

  

  Henry A. Kissinger

  PoliticianGerman1923 · 20th century

  4.2 · 47 votes · 164 reads

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• I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.

  

  Fidel Castro

  PoliticianCuba1926 · 20th century

  4.3 · 62 votes · 55 reads

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• I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief.

  

  Fidel Castro

  PoliticianCuba1926 · 20th century

  3.6 · 59 votes · 83 reads

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• I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.

  

  Fidel Castro

  PoliticianCuba1926 · 20th century

  4.4 · 44 votes · 171 reads

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• If in a country, most of the wealth is concentrated in the hands of the few, then this country can hardly witness harmony and stability.

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  Wen Jiabao

  PoliticianChinese1942 · 20th century

  3.5 · 20 votes · 58 reads

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• If it were necessary to give the briefest possible definition of imperialism, we should have to say that imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism.

  

  Vladimir Lenin

  LeaderRussian1870 · 19th century

  3.8 · 15 votes · 41 reads

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• If Socialism can only be realized when the intellectual development of all the people permits it, then we shall not see Socialism for at least five hundred years.

  

  Vladimir Lenin

  LeaderRussian1870 · 19th century

  4.0 · 44 votes · 59 reads

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• If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.

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  Joseph Stalin

  LeaderRussian1879 · 19th century

  4.4 · 6 votes · 97 reads

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• In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.

  

  Karl Marx

  EconomistGerman1818 · 19th century

  4.4 · 28 votes · 26 reads

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• It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice; I consider the real vice is making losses.

  

  Winston Churchill

  PoliticianBritish1874 · 19th century

  4.9 · 28 votes · 162 reads

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• It is only when there is the supervision and critical oversight from the people that the government will be in a position to do an even better job, and employees of government departments will be the true public servants of the people.

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  Wen Jiabao

  PoliticianChinese1942 · 20th century

  4.7 · 10 votes · 108 reads

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• It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.

  

  Vladimir Lenin

  LeaderRussian1870 · 19th century

  3.0 · 54 votes · 189 reads

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• It seems that the most important thing about Reagan was his anti-Communism and his reputation as a hawk who saw the Soviet Union as an 'evil empire.'

  

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  PoliticianRussian1931 · 20th century

  3.3 · 7 votes · 178 reads

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• More socialism means more democracy, openness and collectivism in everyday life.

  

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  PoliticianRussian1931 · 20th century

  4.4 · 63 votes · 24 reads

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• More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.

  

  Fidel Castro

  PoliticianCuba1926 · 20th century

  4.4 · 55 votes · 195 reads

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• My idea, as the whole world knows, is that the capitalist system now doesn't work either for the United States or the world, driving it from crisis to crisis, which are each time more serious.

  

  Fidel Castro

  PoliticianCuba1926 · 20th century

  3.5 · 43 votes · 191 reads

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• No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.

  

  Vladimir Lenin

  LeaderRussian1870 · 19th century

  3.9 · 50 votes · 48 reads

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• No thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real!

  

  Fidel Castro

  PoliticianCuba1926 · 20th century

  4.9 · 27 votes · 96 reads

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• One man with a gun can control 100 without one.

  

  Vladimir Lenin

  LeaderRussian1870 · 19th century

  3.6 · 48 votes · 23 reads

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• One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.

  

  Albert Einstein

  PhysicistGerman1879 · 19th century

  4.3 · 16 votes · 184 reads

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• Our fear that Communism might some day take over most of the world blinds us to the fact that anti-communism already has.

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  Anonymous

  3.7 · 24 votes · 146 reads

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• Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism.

  

  Vladimir Lenin

  LeaderRussian1870 · 19th century

  3.8 · 31 votes · 184 reads

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• Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.

  

  Vladimir Lenin

  LeaderRussian1870 · 19th century

  3.2 · 21 votes · 200 reads

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• Socialism is like a dream. Sooner or later you wake up to reality.

  

  Winston Churchill

  PoliticianBritish1874 · 19th century

  3.8 · 25 votes · 197 reads

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• Socialism must come down from the brain and reach the heart.

  

  Jules Renard

  WriterFrench1864 · 19th century

  3.7 · 41 votes · 55 reads

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• Socialism, as I understand it, is a system of democracy. Without democracy, there is no socialism.

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  Wen Jiabao

  PoliticianChinese1942 · 20th century

  4.5 · 60 votes · 196 reads

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• Socialists think profits are a vice; I consider losses the real vice.

  

  Winston Churchill

  PoliticianBritish1874 · 19th century

  3.2 · 47 votes · 126 reads

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• Sometimes - history needs a push.

  

  Vladimir Lenin

  LeaderRussian1870 · 19th century

  4.9 · 50 votes · 154 reads

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• The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency.

  

  Vladimir Lenin

  LeaderRussian1870 · 19th century

  3.9 · 38 votes · 61 reads

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• The goal of socialism is communism.

  

  Vladimir Lenin

  LeaderRussian1870 · 19th century

  4.3 · 15 votes · 89 reads

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• The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament.

  

  Vladimir Lenin

  LeaderRussian1870 · 19th century

  4.8 · 60 votes · 192 reads

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• The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples' money.

  

  Margaret Thatcher

  PoliticianBritish1925 · 20th century

  4.2 · 14 votes · 72 reads

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• The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong.

  

  Fidel Castro

  PoliticianCuba1926 · 20th century

  3.5 · 23 votes · 37 reads

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• The substance of the eminent Socialist gentlemen's speech is that making a profit is a sin. It is my belief that the real sin is taking a loss!

  

  Winston Churchill

  PoliticianBritish1874 · 19th century

  4.2 · 6 votes · 49 reads

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• The theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.

  

  Karl Marx

  EconomistGerman1818 · 19th century

  4.3 · 57 votes · 165 reads

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• The universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs.

  

  Fidel Castro

  PoliticianCuba1926 · 20th century

  3.5 · 44 votes · 67 reads

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• There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.

  

  Fidel Castro

  PoliticianCuba1926 · 20th century

  3.7 · 20 votes · 158 reads

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• They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?

  

  Fidel Castro

  PoliticianCuba1926 · 20th century

  4.8 · 63 votes · 2 reads

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• Under socialism all will govern in turn and will soon become accustomed to no one governing.

  

  Vladimir Lenin

  LeaderRussian1870 · 19th century

  4.9 · 22 votes · 159 reads

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• We don't let them have ideas. Why would we let them have guns?

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  Joseph Stalin

  LeaderRussian1879 · 19th century

  4.5 · 63 votes · 57 reads

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• We must conclude that it is not only a particular political ideology that has failed, but the idea that men and women could ever define themselves in terms that exclude their spiritual needs.

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  Saint Thomas Aquinas

  TheologianRoman1224 · 13th century

  3.9 · 27 votes · 79 reads

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• Well, the Communists at that moment were very strong in Italy and the Italian Communist Party was the biggest Communist Party outside Soviet Union, there's no doubt about that.

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  Gianni Agnelli

  BusinessmanItalian1921 · 20th century

  3.9 · 29 votes · 131 reads

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• When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward - or go back. He who now talks about the 'freedom of the press' goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism.

  

  Vladimir Lenin

  LeaderRussian1870 · 19th century

  3.0 · 15 votes · 133 reads

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• When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use.

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  Joseph Stalin

  LeaderRussian1879 · 19th century

  3.2 · 10 votes · 174 reads

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• While the State exists there can be no freedom; when there is freedom there will be no State.

  

  Vladimir Lenin

  LeaderRussian1870 · 19th century

  4.2 · 17 votes · 103 reads

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• You'll see certain Pythagorean whose belief in communism of property goes to such lengths that they pick up anything lying about unguarded, and make off with it without a qualm of conscience as if it had come to them by law.

  

  Erasmus of Rotterdam

  TheologianDutch1466 · 15th century

  4.1 · 37 votes · 86 reads

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