“All I know is I'm not a Marxist.”
“Communism is like one big phone company.”
“Communism is in conflict with human nature.”
“Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.”
“Communism is a cow of many; well milked and badly fed.”
“A specter is haunting Europe -- the specter of communism.”
“Socialism must come down from the brain and reach the heart.”
“When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use.”
“Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation.”
“Socialism is like a dream. Sooner or later you wake up to reality.”
“Communism is like prohibition, it is a good idea, but it won't work.”
“Socialists think profits are a vice; I consider losses the real vice.”
“Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.”
“Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country.”
“The final conflict will be between the Communists and the ex-Communists.”
“Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.”
“There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.”
“Let's not talk about Communism. Communism was just an idea, just pie in the sky.”
“Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.”
“What is a Communist? One who has yearnings for equal division of unequal earnings.”
“The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the specter of Communism.”
“As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for socialism is its adherents.”
“I am a communist because I believe that the Communist idea is a state form of Christianity.”
“Under socialism all will govern in turn and will soon become accustomed to no one governing.”
“Socialism is a vast machine for churning out piles of goods marked ''Take it or leave it. ''”
“It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice; I consider the real vice is making losses.”
“There are only two sorts of people in life you can trust -- good Christians and good Communists.”
“For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion.”
“Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.”
“The theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.”