Stalinist Communism Quotes & Sayings

We will not bend or fail until the blood of every last Jew from the youngest child to the oldest elder is spilt to redeem our land! — Yasser Arafat

The threat today is not passivity, but pseudo-activity, the urge to "be active", to "participate", to mask the Nothingness of what goes on. — Slavoj Zizek

Despite my efforts, I was something less than a model student, subject to passionate eruptions in class and wild excursions into related topics. At home I rehearsed calm deliveries, practiced lowering my voice to make it sound authoritative and cool, but in the heat of the moment, I would always forget. — Siri Hustvedt

The complete collapse of the belief in the attainability of freedom and equality through Marxism," writes Peter Drucker, "has forced Russia to travel the same road toward a totalitarian, purely negative, non-economic society of unfreedom and inequality which Germany has been following. Not that communism and fascism are essentially the same. Fascism is the stage reached after communism has proved an illusion, and it has proved as much an illusion in Stalinist Russia as in pre-Hitler Germany."9 No less significant — Friedrich Hayek

I do not fear anybody on the field or in society, but I fear at night when I am away from my parents. I am scared of the unknown described in horror movies. — Saina Nehwal

Let us live as people who are prepared to die, and die as people who are prepared to live. — James Stuart Stewart

Here's some simple advice: Always be yourself. Never take yourself to seriously. And beware of advice from experts, pigs, and members of Parliament. — Jim Henson

Teachers are directed to instruct their pupils ... and to awaken in them a sense of their responsibility toward the community of the nation. — Bernhard Rust

It's a funny thing, because I think that my mother and I may finally be speaking the same language. But somehow, now words don't seem as necessary — Gayle Forman

Good dreams don't come cheap, you've got to pay for them and If you just dream when you're asleep this is no way for them to come alive ... to survive. — Harry Chapin

For good people to do evil doesn't require only religion, or even any religion, but simply one of it's key elements: belief without evidence-in other words, faith.
And that kind of faith is seen not just in religion, but any authoritarian ideology that puts dogma above truth and frowns on dissent.
This was precisely the case in the totalitarian regimes of Maoist China and Stalinist Russia, whose excesses are often (and wrongly) blamed on atheism.

Faith vs. Fact. p. 220 — Jerry A. Coyne

I don't understand why some people would even try to categorize you. After watching "Duck Dynasty", who would have thunk? — Shannon L. Alder