George Orwell Quotes

I believe that Communism is necessary to the world, and I believe that the heroism of Russia has fired men's hopes in a way which was essential to the realization of Communism in the future. Regarded as a splendid attempt, without which ultimate success would have been very improbable, Bolshevism deserves the gratitude and admiration of all the progressive part of mankind.

The Bible does not say anything about communism, OK? The Bible has a whole lot to say about sex. It has a whole lot to say about homosexuality. And so you can't compare the two and say these are - these are the same. That's just ludicrous. It's just - it's not the same.

Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.

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

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

I still believe in what I believed in for 20 years as a Socialist in Parliament, and being a Socialist is not the same as being a utopian.

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

Communism has served us ill in having us swap a living brotherhood for what looks to have the features of the coldest of all chill abstractions.

Socialism" is no more an evil word than "Christianity." Socialism no more prescribed Joseph Stalin and his secret police and shuttered churches than Christianity prescribed the Spanish Inquisition. Christianity and socialism alike, in fact, prescribe a society dedicated to the proposition that all men, women, and children are created equal and shall not starve.

Socialism is a dead horse.

If you understood what communism was, you would hope, you would pray on your knees that we would some day become communist. . . . I, a socialist, think that we should strive toward a socialist society, all the way to communism.

Socialism is communism without the firing squad.

The idea of Socialism is at once grandiose and simple. . .We may say, in fact, that it is one of the most ambitious creations of the human spirit, . . .so magnificent, so daring, that it has rightly aroused the greatest admiration. If we wish to save the world from barbarism we have to refute Socialism, but we cannot thrust it carelessly aside.

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

Socialism is a monster which will die.

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

In the last few years we have learned to distinguish the means of Socialism from the ends.

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

In Democracy, man exploits man; in Communism, it's the other way round.

Communism and socialism is [sic] seductive. It promises us that people will contribute according to ability and receive according to needs. Everybody is equal. Everybody has a right to decent housing, decent food and affordable medical care. History should have taught us that when we hear people talk this stuff - watch out!

There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism - by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide.

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

If I had to be anything," he told her, "I'd probably be a socialist, but I don't want to be anything.

We should have had socialism already, but for the socialists, am quite willing to drop the name if dropping it will help me to get the thing.

No force, no torture, no intrigue can eradicate Marxism-Leninism from the minds and hearts of men.