Klaus Fuchs Quotes

When I consider what it was that moved me to join the Communist Party, I have to cast my mind back for more than a quarter of a century to try and ascertain what precisely my motives at that time were.

I will never retire from politics, the revolution, or the ideas I have.

Very curious, at the age of about 13 years, Oswald began to study Marxism and he kept on in his writing, affirming that he was a Marxist. Probably he did want to show himself as a great, supreme Marxist.

I joined the Communist Party late in 1934. I got out a year and a half later.

A lot of populists after populism died just became socialists. At the beginning of the 20th century, socialism looked like it was going to take off. It didn't, of course, but a lot of people thought it was going to.

While signing 'Sakhavu,' I wasn't aware of the depth of communism in Kerala. I was born and brought up in Chennai, and our political ideologies are very different.

I have stuck my neck out to stand with a party whose ideologies are closest to mine.

I had been friendly with people who were in the Communist party and all the rest of the Left forces, which were oriented in the direction of mass action.

Picasso is a communist. Neither am I.

I'm a socialist, and I'm not going to be ashamed to say it!

You can make the case that slacktivism is important because it makes people feel affiliated to a movement and be part of it, and talk about it.

At the time I was arrested I had no idea it would turn into this. It was just a day like any other day. The only thing that made it significant was that the masses of the people joined in.

My father was an ardent socialist for many years.

My dad was a Communist Party member who fought for his country.

I've never said I'm a communist.

I joined a small but growing post-Trotskyite Luxembourgist sect.

I think there's a mystery about what a social movement is.

The Labour Party is and always has been an instinctive part of my life.

I can only say, think of me what you will, I have worked for thirty years in the Party, and my whole family has devoted everything to the affairs of the Party, the affairs of socialism.

That said, I have come to believe that the more committed one is to leftism, the more likely one is to become meaner.

I think politics can no longer be assigned to parliamentary activity and it probably never could be. But politics with a small p and the history of trade union movement really interests me.

My parents had been involved in the labor movement; if we'd grown up in the city, we would have been red-diaper babies.

Most actors are socialists, aren't they?

The fact that some poor, illiterate people have ‘gone Communist’ does not prove that poverty caused them to do so.

I shall die as I have lived, not as a politician but as a socialist.