Rafael Cruz Quotes

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

We may first observe that communism and socialism - which we shall hereafter group together and dub Statism - cannot live with Christianity nor with any religion that postulates a Creator such as the Declaration of Independence recognizes. The slaves of Statism must know no power, no authority, no source of blessing, no God, but the State.

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

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.

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 communism without the firing squad.

Whether the state be Marxist or capitalist, it makes no difference. The dominant ideology is that of sovereignty.

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

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.

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.

For the complete extinction of the state, complete Communism is necessary.

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.

I went to Communism as one goes to a spring of fresh water, and I left Communism as one clambers out of a poisoned river strewn with the wreckage of flooded cities and the corpses of the drowned.

All socialism involves slavery.

Socialism requires that government becomes your god.

Communism is nonsense.

We must live under absolute communism.

Socialism and communism are now so near each other that there is hardly any difference between them. In the past they differed from each other as does liberalism from democracy

… creeping collectivism

We can't keep flirting with communism and socialism.

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.

There has never been a communism that worked. They were all dictatorships or oligarchies, every single one.