Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

The whole gospel of Karl Marx can be summed up in a single sentence: Hate the man who is better off than you are. Never under any circumstances admit that his success may be due to his own efforts, to the productive contribution he has made to the whole community. Always attribute his success to the exploitation, the cheating, the more or less open robbery of others. Never under any circumstances admit that your own failure may be owing to your own weakness, or that the failure of anyone else may be due to his own defects - his laziness, incompetence, improvidence, or stupidity.

Marxism requires that we destroy God, because government must become God. And the only way for government to become God is to destroy the concept of God.

Marxism must abhor nothing so much as the possibility that it becomes congealed in its current form. It is at its best when butting heads in self-criticism, and in historical thunder and lightning, it retains its strength.

Just as Darwin discovered the law of development of organic nature, so Marx discovered the law of development of human history: the simple fact, hitherto concealed by an overgrowth of ideology, that mankind must first of all eat, drink, have shelter and clothing, before it can pursue politics, science, art, religion, etc.

Marxism conceives of the new system of socialism as the necessary outcome of all previous history made possible and necessary only by that previous history.

The difference between the Socialists and the Communists is that … the Communists mean it.

Dialectical materialism works like cocaine, let's say. If you sniff it once or twice, it may not change your life. If you use it day after day, though, it will make you into an addict, a different man.

Marxism is now a world faith and must be allowed to enter into a continuous dialogue with other world faiths, including religious faiths

The Western democracy of today is the forerunner of Marxism which without it would not be thinkable. It provides this world plague with the culture in which its germs can spread.

Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism.

Karl Marx, a visionary, figured out that you can control a slave much better by convincing him he is an employee.

It is necessary to master Marxist theory and apply it, master it for the sole purpose of applying it. If you can apply the Marxist-Leninist viewpoint in elucidating one or two practical problems, you should be commended and credited with some achievement.

I'm less influenced by any of [Karl] Marx's ideas today than I've ever been in my life, and most significantly Marx's theory of historical materialism, which I think is virtually a debris of despotism.

The publication of the third volume of Capital has made hardly any impression upon bourgeois economic science.

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

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.

First of all, Bolshevism represents revolution and the revolutionary struggle.

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

The classics of Marxism, while fully appreciating the significance of the Darwinian theory, pointed out the errors of which Darwin was guilty. Darwin's theory, though unquestionably materialist in its main features, is not free from some serious errors.

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

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

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

There will be no communism.

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.

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