Bill Ayers Quotes

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.

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

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.

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

[Communism] is the 20th century's most extraordinary political aberration.

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.

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 wonder is that communism lasted so long. But then again, modern poetry lasted a long time, too.

The modern revisionists and reactionaries call us Stalinists, thinking that they insult us and, in fact, that is what they have in mind. But, on the contrary, they glorify us with this epithet; it is an honor for us to be Stalinists for while we maintain such a stand the enemy cannot and will never force us to our knees.

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

The Marxians love of democratic institutions was a stratagem only, a pious fraud for the deception of the masses. Within a socialist community there is no room left for freedom.

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

There is no room for communists in Kenya.

Communism cannot be imposed by force.

Having emigrated to the United States as a small boy from the Soviet Union, I am instinctively suspicious of socialism and inveterately opposed to communism.

Today we are fighting Communism. Okay. If I'd been alive fifty years ago, the brand of Conservatism we have today would have been damn near called Communism and we should have been told to go and fight that. History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.

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

The evolution toward Communism is inevitable.

Communism has been the greatest and bloodiest illusion that humanity ever bore.

Conservatives recognize there's gonna be winners and losers. The communists say that's not right. There shouldn't be any losers, and they set about trying to create circumstances where people think nobody will lose. But everybody loses under communism. They eventually have to build walls around countries to keep people in, as in the Berlin Wall.

This bill reminds me of the tactics of the former Soviet Union - and we know how successful that was.

The Soviet Union tried for 70 years to plant Marxism with bayonets in Eastern Europe. Today there are more Marxists on the Harvard faculty than there are in Eastern Europe.

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.

Communism is a monopolistic system, economically and politically.