Quotes about Communism
Communists have committed great crimes, but at least they have not stood aside, like an established society, and been indifferent. I would rather have blood on my hands than water, like Pilate.
- Graham Greene
Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation.
- Will Rogers
Communism is a religion that is inspired, directed and motivated by the Devil himself who has declared war against Almighty God.
- Billy Graham
No reasonable man, much less a Christian, can or should take part in the efforts of Communists and Socialists
- CF Walther
Attribute the declining life expectancy in the former Soviet Union to the failures of communism many years ago, but never attribute the high infant mortality rate in the United States (now highest of the major industrial nations) to the failures of capitalism.
- Carl Sagan
Communism introduced into the world a substitute for true religion. It is a counterfeit of the gospel plan.
- Ezra Taft Benson
I have lived under totalitarian Communism, so I prize freedom as much as anyone and have long fought for freedom of conscience and speech.
- Os Guinness
Observe also that an honest theoretician does not try to present his ideas in the guise of their opposites. But Kant's philosophy is presented as "pure reason"—altruism is presented as a doctrine of "love"—communism is presented as "liberation"—and egalitarianism is presented as "justice.
- Ayn Rand
Most of them don't know what communism is, could not pick it out of a lineup. They only know what anticommunism is. The two are practically unrelated.
- Barbara Kingsolver
How marvelous it was to stand in a place like the Soviet Union and talk about the coming kingdom and to tell them that Communism will not win. I told them capitalism would not win either; it's the kingdom of God that is going to win.
- Billy Graham
Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.
- Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Mary!—we poor creatures of earth are stumbling over our freedoms, fumbling over our choices. Millions of us are seeking to give up their freedom—some by repudiating it, because of the burden of their guilt—some, by surrendering it to the moods and fashions of the time—others, by absorption into Communism, where there is only one will, which is the dictator's, and where the only love is hate and revolution!
- Bishop Fulton J. Sheen