"What is a communist? One who hath yearnings
For equal division of unequal earnings."
- EBENEZER ELLIOTT, Epigram

"Leninism is a combination of two things which Europeans have kept for some centuries in different compartments of their soul - religion and business." - JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES, Essays in Persuasion

"If anyone believes that our smiles involve abandonment of the teaching of Marx, Engels, and Lenin he deceives himself poorly. Those who wait for that must wait until a shrimp learns to whistle." - NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV, speech (1955)

"From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs." - KARL MARX, Critique of the Gotha Program

"A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of Communism." - KARL MARX AND FRIEDRICH ENGELS, The Communist Manifesto

"Communism is inequality, but not as property is. Property is the exploitation of the weak by the strong. Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak." - PIERRE-JOSEPH PROUDHON, What Is Property?