James Russell Lowell Quotes

Its [Communism's] unfortunate association with violence encourages a certain evil tendency in human beings.

I regard Marxism as the most sinister and the most subtle form of totalitarianism.

Communism has been the greatest and bloodiest illusion that humanity ever bore.

The modern revisionists and reactionaries call us Stalinists, thinking that they insult us and, in fact, that is what they have in mind. But, on the contrary, they glorify us with this epithet; it is an honor for us to be Stalinists for while we maintain such a stand the enemy cannot and will never force us to our knees.

Karl Marx was the foremost hater and most incessant whiner in the history of Western Civilization. He was a spoiled, overeducated brat who never grew up; he just grew more shrill as he grew older. His lifelong hatred and whining have led to the deaths (so far) of perhaps a hundred million people, depending on how many people perished under Mao's tyranny. We will probably never know.

Communism is fascism with a human face.

Communism is evil. Its driving forces are the deadly sins of envy and hatred.

I believe that the madness of Communism would be the sole victor.

I went to Communism as one goes to a spring of fresh water, and I left Communism as one clambers out of a poisoned river strewn with the wreckage of flooded cities and the corpses of the drowned.

Communism is a monopolistic system, economically and politically.

I see in Communism the focus of the concentrated evil of our time.

The Communist is a Socialist in a violent hurry.

If Marx was alive during the Stalinist period, he'd be first to be in the gulag.

But if by some freak of history communism had caught up with this country, I would have been one of the first people thrown in jail.

The Marxians love of democratic institutions was a stratagem only, a pious fraud for the deception of the masses. Within a socialist community there is no room left for freedom.

Churchill knew instinctively what was wrong with communism - that it repressed liberty; that it replaced individual discretion with state control; that it entailed the curtailment of democracy, and therefore that it was tyrannous.

Dictatorship is rule based directly upon force and unrestricted by any laws. The revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat is rule won and maintained by the use of violence by the proletariat against the bourgeoisie, rule that is unrestricted by any laws.

I am a socialist. However, I have to add that what I understand by socialism is exactly the opposite of what many people, or most people, today mean by socialism.

Socialism is just another form of tyranny.

If you are in Brazil and you grew up in a right-wing dictatorship, you think Marxism is liberating. But if you grew up in Czechoslovakia, and the Soviet Union is controlling everything and killing people, then you think capitalism is liberating. Neither of those two things are true and it doesn't take a lot brains to understand this.

Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.

Communism is in conflict with human nature.

Communism is a religion that is inspired, directed and motivated by the Devil himself who has declared war against Almighty God.

Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.

Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal.