Frank Capra Quotes

We thought we'd leave communism behind, and everything would turn out fine. But it turns out you can't leave this and become free, because these people don't understand what freedom is.

Fascism is nothing but capitalist reaction.

Communism was something so hideous that you had to be an exceptional conformist or a fool not to see the evil around you.

There have been … totalitarian forces in our lifetime: The totalitarianism of fascism and now of capitalism.

Communism is the wave of the past, and freedom is the wave of the future.

Political correctness is the natural continuum from the party line. What we are seeing once again is a self-appointed group of vigilantes imposing their views on others. It is a heritage of communism, but they don't seem to see this.

So long as I'm president, communism will not thrive here.

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

If the Russians claim they are Socialist, this is just, I would say, a lie. They have no socialism at all. They have what I would call a state capitalism.

To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.

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

I never loved totalitarianism and all the ideas of making mankind happy always seemed crazy to me.

If you are in Brazil and you grew up in a right-wing dictatorship, you think Marxism is liberating. But if you grew up in Czechoslovakia, and the Soviet Union is controlling everything and killing people, then you think capitalism is liberating. Neither of those two things are true and it doesn't take a lot brains to understand this.

Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.

I see in Communism the focus of the concentrated evil of our time.

Fascism is capitalism in decay.

Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal.

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

Socialism means slavery.

The ultimate end of any ideology is totalitarianism.

The real issue behind these people who are gun grabbers, the truth is - based on fact - the reason why is, they want control. They want control of the people. That's what socialism is and communism.

I think one of the very frightening things about the regime of the National Socialists is that it made people happy.

You must fight not only against open fascism but also against concealed fascism which parades under the mask of “socialism.”

Nowadays, we seldom remember that the totalitarianism that emerged early this century was thought to embody, above all, modernity and technology.

We are at the crossroads. One road leads toward fascism, the other towards Communism. I take the road to fascism.