Nadine Gordimer Quotes

Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.

I mean, where I come from, 'communism' is not a terrible word.

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

It's impossible, I think, however much I'd become disillusioned politically or evolve into a post-political person, I don't think I'd ever change my view that socialism is the best political moment humans have ever come up with.

A communist is a man who has nothing and wishes to share it with the world.

Communists must be ready at all times to stand up for the truth, because truth is in the interests of the people; Communists must be ready at all times to correct their mistakes, because mistakes are against the interests of the people.

...the French Revolution gave rise to ideas which led beyond the ideas of the entire old world order. The revolutionary movement which began in 1789... gave rise to the communist idea which Babeuf's friend Buonarroti re-introduced in France after the Revolution of 1830. This idea, consistently developed, is the idea of the new world order.

Horrible to say, in a manner I am a Communist.

There may be thousands of principles of Marxism, but in the final analysis they can be summed up in one sentence: Rebellion is justified.

In the little hall leading to it was a rack holding various Socialist or radical newspapers, tracts, and pamphlets in very small print and on very bad paper. The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.

In the 1970s, many intellectuals had become political radicals. Marxism was correct, liberalism was for wimps, and Marx had pronounced that 'the ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.'

How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.

Communism will win.

I am a Communist, certainly, but that doesn't mean I have to make films about the wheat harvest.

I was surprised to see the meeting was of Communists and the whole meeting was along Communist lines.

When I joined the Communist movement in 1935 it was based upon the belief that mankind's future was to be found there. Certainly, millions who joined it the world over, like myself, didn't join it for profit.

I am a Communist, a convinced Communist! For some that may be a fantasy. But to me it is my main goal.

I still call myself a communist, because communism is no more what Russia made of it than Christianity is what the churches make of it.

The Communist Party said that I must finish my studies because after the revolution in Germany people would be required with technical knowledge to take part in the building of the Communist Germany.

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.

Let's not talk about Communism. Communism was just an idea, just pie in the sky.

I was the true future. I understood Communism better than they did.

I always thought communism was crap, really.

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