J. Reuben Clark Quotes

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

Socialism is inseparably interwoven with totalitarianism and the object worship of the state.

All socialism involves slavery.

Socialism easily accepts despotism. It requires the strongest execution of power -- power sufficient to interfere with property.

Socialists cry “Power to the people”, and raise the clenched fist as they say it. We all know what they really mean - power over people, power to the State.

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

One thing that I am sure of, and which I can answer truthfully, is that whatever the contingencies that may arise here, wherever I am there will be no communism.

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

Socialism is just another form of tyranny.

Socialism requires that government becomes your god.

But if by some freak of history communism had caught up with this country, I would have been one of the first people thrown in jail.

Socialism is the phantastic younger brother of despotism, which it wants to inherit. Socialism wants to have the fullness of state force which before only existed in despotism. ... However, it goes further than anything in the past because it aims at the formal destruction of the individual ... who ... can be used to improve communities by an expedient organ of government.

No totalitarian authority nor authoritarian state can tolerate those who have an absolute by which to judge that state and its actions. The Christians had that absolute in God's revelation.

Socialism and interventionism. Both have in common the goal of subordinating the individual unconditionally to the state.

You cannot solve the problem by turning to communism, for communism is based on an ethical relativism and a metaphysical materialism that no Christian can accept.

All socialism involves slavery. That which fundamentally distinguishes the slave is that he labours under coercion to satisfy anothers desires.

One of the bitter ironies of the 20th century was that communism, which began as an egalitarian doctrine accusing capitalism of selfishness and calloused sacrifices of others, became in power a system whose selfishness and callousness toward others made the sins of capitalism pale.

Socialism is an attack on the right to breathe freely. No socialist system can be established without a political police.

You know the critical thing with the Communist countries is Communism, which by definition consists of control by the government.

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.

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.

Don't be fooled into turning to Communism looking for food.

Communism is evil. Its driving forces are the deadly sins of envy and hatred.

When I was young, communism, which had a certain allure to me, was clearly a failed experiment in the Soviet Union and in China. And yet, anti-communism was as bad.

Socialism of any type leads to a total destruction of the human spirit...