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"At the higher stage of communism, when the productive forces will be greatly developed and the principle "from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs" will be practised, personal interests will be acknowledged still more and more personal needs will be satisfied."
"Admittedly communism has not been achieved in Russia. State socialism has been built."
"The way people get their living determines their social outlook."
"All I know is I'm not a Marxist."
"Be pupils of the masses as well as their teachers."
"The cause of Communism is the greatest cause in the history of mankind!"
"Is there conscience in the Kremlin? Do they ever ask themselves what is the purpose of life? What is it all for?... No. Their creed is barren of conscience, immune to the promptings of good and evil."
"Churchill knew instinctively what was wrong with communism - that it repressed liberty; that it replaced individual discretion with state control; that it entailed the curtailment of democracy, and therefore that it was tyrannous."
"Communism was replaced by the threat of ambitious environmentalism."
"Communism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution."
"You have never suffered-how can you be a leftist?"
"I always disagree, however, when people end up saying that we can only combat Communism, Fascism or what not if we develop an equal fanaticism. It appears to me that one defeats the fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself, but on the contrary by using one's intelligence."
"Communism means barbarism."
"Communism is quite obviously still a threat. Yes, they are human beings, with a right to their point of view . . ."
"Communism was overthrown by life, by thought, by dignity."
"Communism is fascism with a human face."
"Without a single shot we've managed to liberate the world of communism but now there is a need for a global solidarity."
"There are indications that today the intellectuals are coming back to [Albert] Camus. History has given them reason to, with the fall of communism."
"Stalinism - or communism - is the only ideology Americans know how to demonise... no one knows what it is, it's just a synonym for the Empire of Evil."
"Either communism must die or Christianity must die because it's actually a battle between Christ and Anti-Christ."
