"The Japanese are only
lice on the body of China, but Communism is a disease of the heart."
Chinese saying, c. 1940
"Just
as feudalism was
an advance over slavery, and capitalism was the next step after
feudalism,
socialism is the next step after capitalism...........Socialism in
America
will come through the ballot box."
Gus Hall, Communist Party
USA, Cleveland Plain-Dealer, 1996
"The whole gospel
of Karl Marx can be summed up in a single
sentence: Hate the man who is
better off than you are. Never under any circumstances admit that his
success may be due to his own efforts, to the productive contribution
he has made to the whole community. Always attribute his success to the
exploitation, the cheating, the more or less open robbery of others.
Never under any circumstances admit that your own failure may be owing
to your own weakness, or that the failure of anyone else may be due to
his own defects - his
laziness, incompetence, improvidence, or
stupidity."
Henry Hazlitt
"If
we had some ham,
we could have some ham and eggs, if we had some eggs."
U.S. Senator Jesse Helms,
definition of Socialism
"The
great crimes of
the twentieth century were committed not by money-grubbing capitalists
but by dedicated idealists. Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler were contemptuous
of money. The passage from the nineteenth to the twentieth century has
been a passage from considerations of money to considerations of power."
Eric Hoffer
"You
can't get good
chinese takeout in China and cuban cigars are rationed in Cuba. That's
all you need to know about communism."
P.J. O'Rourke
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