Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes

Communists are the last optimists.

Like the phoenix, socialism is reborn from every pile of ashes left day in, day out, by burnt-out human dreams and charred hopes.

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

More socialism means more democracy, openness and collectivism in everyday 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.

The Communist vision is the vision of man without God.

It cannot be so very surprising that I adopted a Communist viewpoint in the 1930s; so many of my contemporaries made the same choice. But many of those who made that choice in those days changed sides when some of the worst features of Stalinism became apparent. I stayed the course.

As I've had occasion to say before, I'm a pretty anti-sociable Socialist.

We, people of socialism, are not like others. We have our peculiar ideas about heroes and martyrs.

I have come to communism because of daddy Stalin and nobody must come and tell me that I mustn’t read Stalin. I read him when it was very bad to read him. That was another time. And because I’m not very bright, and a hard-headed person, I keep on reading him. Especially in this new period, now that it is worse to read him. Then, as well as now, I still find a Seri of things that are very good.

The Communists have no need to introduce free love; it has existed almost from time immemorial.

The fight we are in here, make no mistake about it, is a fight of individualism versus collectivism.

Communism begins where atheism begins.

Commies love concrete.

No one is born a Communist... in the Soviet Union farmers keep on looking in the barn for their horses even after they have given them to the collective.

American radicals cannot afford to become their own worst enemies. In unity lies their only hope.

Just as Marx used to say about the French Marxists of the late 'seventies: All I know is that I am not a Marxist.

Karl Marx was right, socialism works, it is just that he had the wrong species

I regard Marxism as the most sinister and the most subtle form of totalitarianism.

But : We're still human. Human because we keep on battling against all these horrors, the horrors caused and not caused by us. We battle not in order to stay alive, that would be too materalistic, for we are body and spirit, but in order to love each other.

So I shamelessly say, no, I want him [Obama] to fail, if his agenda is a far- left collectivism, some people say socialism, as a conservative heartfelt, deeply, why would I want socialism to succeed?

I go for Mao Tse-tung much more than, than Nehru because I think that Nehru brought his country up in a beggar's role.

I hope we have American-topias.

You hear that liberalism lacks an idea of the common good, but I think that's a mistake.

Now back in 1927 an American socialist, Norman Thomas, six times candidate for president on the Socialist Party ticket, said the American people would never vote for socialism. But he said under the name of liberalism the American people will adopt every fragment of the socialist program.