Henry A. Kissinger Quotes

The color of communism was not red but gray.

Communism is quite obviously still a threat. Yes, they are human beings, with a right to their point of view . . .

China, as a nation, is a country under the one-party rule of the Communist Party, but it has introduced the market economy. As a country that is under the one-party rule of the Communist Party, normally what they should be seeking is equality of results.

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

The democracy of the Western countries is the predecessor of Marxism, which would be unthinkable without democracy.

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

Fascism and communism have not entirely disappeared but have been sidelined certainly, and liberal democracy has come to be accepted, in theory at least, around the world, if not always in practice.

To coexist with communism on the same planet is impossible. Either it will spread, cancer-like, to destroy mankind, or else mankind will have to rid itself of communism (and even then face lengthy treatment for secondary tumors).

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

I have the distinction of speaking to you from one of the few countries that still has a communist party.

Today we are fighting Communism. Okay. If I'd been alive fifty years ago, the brand of Conservatism we have today would have been damn near called Communism and we should have been told to go and fight that. History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.

We have not yet built a communist society.It is not so easy to build such a society.

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

What was wrong with communism wasn't aberrant leadership, it was communism.

What I experienced in Cuba, I have become a student of what, how communism operates.

Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink.

Don't be fooled into turning to Communism looking for food.

Really, the one thing that actually works - you know, state-run communism may not be your cup of tea, but [China's] government works.

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.

World communism is like [a] malignant parasite which feeds on diseased tissue

China is not a great idea: capitalism and a dictator. It's like the two worst possible things you could imagine together. It's a very bad idea.

One of the bitter ironies of the 20th century was that communism, which began as an egalitarian doctrine accusing capitalism of selfishness and calloused sacrifices of others, became in power a system whose selfishness and callousness toward others made the sins of capitalism pale.

Communism is a form of society where the less people have to eat, the more they have to swallow.

If I had to choose between life in the Soviet Union and life in the U. S. A. , I would certainly choose the Soviet Union.

The government has a defect: it's potentially democratic. Corporations have no defect: they're pure tyrannies.