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The chief task was to stop the arms race before it brought utter disaster. However, after the collapse of communism and the disintegration of the Soviet Union, any rationale for having nuclear weapons disappeared.

- Joseph Rotblat

Communism will win.

- Slavoj Zizek

Unionization, as opposed to communism, presupposes the relation of employment; it is based upon the wage system and it recognizes fully and unreservedly the institution of private property and the right to investment profit.

- John L. Lewis

The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the specter of Communism.

- A. J. P. Taylor

In my speeches, I always condemned communism, national-socialism and fascism.

- Jean-Marie Le Pen

I don't know nothing about communism. But I know the Albanians loved me. Same reason as anyone else loves me. Because I made them laugh.

- Norman Wisdom

A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism.

- Karl Marx

Here we were, corrupting all those Russians toward communism.

- Jack Levine

We started filming in 1993 which was only four years after the fall of communism. The difference in Budapest over the last five years has been remarkable.

- Derek Jacobi

Even now we feel that Stalin was devoted to Communism, he was a Marxist, this cannot and should not be denied.

- Nikita Khrushchev

A common danger tends to concord. Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak. In Communism, inequality comes from placing mediocrity on a level with excellence.

- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation.

- Will Rogers

I can understand Communism, but not Socialism.

- Lajos Kossuth

I was the true future. I understood Communism better than they did.

- Elia Kazan

It is popular to call it a crisis of the Western world. It is in fact a crisis of the whole world. Communism, which claims to be a solution of the crisis, is itself a symptom and an irritant of the crisis.

- Whittaker Chambers

We believe firmly that Communism internally and externally can and must be fought without resort to the Communist tactics of the suppression of all individual freedom.

- Emanuel Celler

There will be no communism.

- Francisco Franco

Communism destroys democracy. Democracy can also destroy Communism.

- Andre Malraux

Communism is inequality, but not as property is. Property is exploitation of the weak by the strong. Communism is exploitation of the strong by the weak.

- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Communism is like one big phone company.

- Lenny Bruce

Never, since the fall of communism, has it been so abundantly clear that an ethos exists, which is loath to accept the freedoms and prosperity we hold sacred in this nation.

- Jim Walsh

If Communism goes, I've still got the U.S. House of Representatives.

- Robert Novak

Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.

- Clement Attlee

Today's Communism can survive only if it abandons the myth of an infallible party, if it continues to think, and if it becomes democratic.

- Friedrich Durrenmatt

Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements.

- Nelson Mandela

Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.

- Earl Warren

The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.

- Karl Marx

When I die, my only wish is that Cambodia remain Cambodia and belong to the West. It is over for communism, and I want to stress that.

- Pol Pot

I don't really view communism as a bad thing.

- Whoopi Goldberg

There is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism.

- Karl Marx