Daniel Patrick Moynihan Quotes

There are a few people, but a diminishing number, who still believe that Marxism, as an economic system, off era a coherent alternative to capitalism, and socialism has, indeed, triumphed in one country.

Communism is nonsense.

Communism is like prohibition, it's a good idea but it won't work.

Communism cannot be imposed by force.

Socialism and communism are now so near each other that there is hardly any difference between them. In the past they differed from each other as does liberalism from democracy

I believe that Communism is necessary to the world, and I believe that the heroism of Russia has fired men's hopes in a way which was essential to the realization of Communism in the future. Regarded as a splendid attempt, without which ultimate success would have been very improbable, Bolshevism deserves the gratitude and admiration of all the progressive part of mankind.

When communism failed, it wasn't a good idea that had gone wrong, it was a bad idea that had been sustained with incredible determination in the face of all the commonsense arguments, and at the cost of 20 million lives at least, in Russia, to build the socialist Utopia.

Communists are great capitalists, so there is no threat anymore.

Socialism is simply Communism for people without the testosterone to man the barricades.

I'm a Communist, fully convinced and dedicated to my cause.

Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.

For us in Russia communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion.

Every year humanity takes a step towards Communism. Maybe not you, but … your grandson will surely be a Communist.

Whether the state be Marxist or capitalist, it makes no difference. The dominant ideology is that of sovereignty.

Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.

He (Aneurin Bevan) enjoys prophesying the imminent fall of the capitalist system, and is prepared to play a part, any part, in its burial, except that of mute.

There has never been a communism that worked. They were all dictatorships or oligarchies, every single one.

Admittedly communism has not been achieved in Russia. State socialism has been built.

Mr. Gorbachev has apparently stumbled onto one of the best-kept secrets in recent Soviet history: Communism doesn't work.

The class struggle necessarily leads to the dictatorship of the proletariat.

The evolution toward Communism is inevitable.

When I was young, communism, which had a certain allure to me, was clearly a failed experiment in the Soviet Union and in China. And yet, anti-communism was as bad.

I believe, as Lenin said, that this revolutionary chaos may yet crystallize into new forms of life.

Communism is in conflict with human nature.

Hillary Clinton bothers me a lot. I realized the other day that her thoughts sound a lot like Karl Marx. She hangs around a lot of Marxists. All her friends are Marxists.