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“The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought”. –Léon Blum

“To break and be able to grow together again in a better way: that is the difficult art”. –Asger Jorn

“The oppressed peoples can liberate themselves only through struggle. This is a simple and clear truth confirmed by history”. –Kim Il-sung

“Whoever can lift a rifle should have one”. –Klim Voroshilov

“Man as man can never know God: His wishing, seeking, and striving are all in vain”. –Karl Barth

“Liberalization and democratization are in essence counter-revolutionary”. –Andrei Grechko

“A Nordic union between Scandinavia and Great Britain, with the adherence of Finland and Holland, and in which Germany and eventually the British Dominions and America might later on be absorbed, would take away the sting of any communist combination and secure European civilization and peace for the foreseeable future”. –Vidkun Quisling

“We have now done what the Romans did when they started to commit suicide. We have shifted from an army of citizens to an army of mercenaries”. –Carroll Quigley

“A State is absolute in the sense which I have in mind when it claims the right to a monopoly of all the force within the community, to make war, to make peace, to conscript life, to tax, to establish and dis-establish property, to define crime, to punish disobedience, to control education, to supervise the family, to regulate habits, and to censor opinions. The modern State claims all of these powers, and, in the matter of theory, there is no real difference in the size of the claim between communists, fascists, and democrats”. –Walter Lippmann

“The trouble with free elections is that you never know how they are going to turn out”. –Vyacheslav Molotov

“Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are”. –Bertolt Brecht

“The fate of you, the aristocracy of industry, will be as the fate of the aristocracy of land if you do not show that you have some humanity amongst you”. –James Larkin

“War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun”. –Mao Zedong

“As you know, I am not a writer but a Party functionary. But like every Communist, I consider myself to have been mobilized by Party propaganda and deem it my duty to actively participate in the work of our press”. –Leonid Brezhnev

“The clock of communism has stopped striking, but its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed by its rubble”. –Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“Any ballplayer that don’t sign autographs for little kids ain’t an American, he’s a communist”. –Rogers Hornsby

“Tin-pot dictators have ravaged Asia, Latin America, and Africa. In the aftermath, they have done more to promote communism than the works of Marx and Engels, Lenin, and Mao. They are the worst tyrants of the post-colonial period. They have destroyed time-honored institutions and treated their people like animals”. –Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

“Democracy is the road to socialism”. –Karl Marx

“Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war, or corruption, or both”. –John F. Kennedy