Quotes · Skopia

21 quotes

It would be simplistic to say that Divine Providence caused the fall of communism. It fell by itself as a consequence of its own mistakes and abuses. It fell by itself because of its own inherent weakness

Pope John Paul II

1994

★ 1.0

Speech · Political speech

Communism is based on the belief that man is so weak and inadequate that he is unable to govern himself, and therefore requires the rule of strong masters. Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with reason and justice.

Harry Truman

Second Inaugural Address of Harry Truman · 1949

★ 1.9

Speech · Political speech

Communism subjects the individual to arrest without lawful cause, punishment without trial, and forced labor as the chattel of the state. It decrees what information he shall receive, what art he shall produce, what leaders he shall follow, and what thoughts he shall think.

Harry Truman

Second Inaugural Address of Harry Truman · 1949

★ 1.9

Speech · Newspaper

The illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.

Clement Attlee

1956

★ 1.9

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

Vladimir Lenin

1920

★ 2.0

Political literature

We aim at something more sublime and more equitable-the common good, or the community of goods... We demand, we would have, the communal enjoyment of the fruits which are for everyone.

Sylvain Marechal

Manifesto of the Equals · 1796

★ 2.6

TV program

No one man can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all his accomplices.

Edward R. Murrow

1954

★ 3.6

Film · Black comedy (film) · War (film) · Black comedy · War

Do you realize that fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous communist plot we have ever had to face?

Brig. Gen. Jack D. Ripper

Dr. Strangelove · 1964

★ 3.6

The tree was already rotten. I just gave it a good shake and the rotten apples fell.

Pope John Paul II

1996

★ 3.6

Speech · Political speech

McCarthyism is Americanism with its sleeves rolled.

Joseph McCarthy

1952

★ 3.7

Letter

What I did that was new was to prove... That the class struggle necessarily leads to the dictatorship of the proletariat.

Karl Marx

1852

★ 3.8

Novel · Allegory · Dystopian fiction

The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.

George Orwell

Animal Farm · 1945

★ 3.9

Pamphlet · Political literature · Economic literature

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

Karl Marx

The Communist Manifesto · 1848

★ 4.0

I can't prove you are a Communist. But when I see a bird that quacks like a duck, walks like a duck, has feathers and webbed feet and associates with ducks-I'm certainly going to assume that he is a duck.

Emil Mazey

1946

★ 4.2

Speech · Political speech

I have here in my hand a list of 205... A list of names that were made known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping policy in the State Department.

Joseph McCarthy

1950

★ 6.9

Film · Black comedy (film) · War (film) · Black comedy · War

I can no longer sit back and allow communist infiltration, communist indoctrination, communist subversion, and the international communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.

Brig. Gen. Jack D. Ripper

Dr. Strangelove · 1964

★ 6.9

Political literature · Philosophical literature

The State is not "abolished", it withers away.

Friedrich Engels

Anti-Duhring · 1878

★ 7.0

Pamphlet · Political literature · Economic literature

A spectre is haunting Europe—the spectre of Communism.

Karl Marx

The Communist Manifesto · 1848

★ 8.2

Speech · Political speech

Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

Ronald Reagan

1987

★ 9.0

Novel · Allegory · Dystopian fiction

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

George Orwell

Animal Farm · 1945

★ 9.1

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