Russian communism isthe illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.

-1st Earl
  Speech,  Aarhus University,11  Apr.

No one has been a more consistent opponent of Communism than I have for the last 25 years. I will unsay no word that I have spoken about it, but all that fades away before the spectacle that is now unfolding. The past, with its crimes, its follies, and its tragedies, flashes away.I seethe Russian soldiersstanding on thethreshold of their native land, guarding the fields that their fathers have tilled from time immemorial. Any man or state who fights on against Nazidom will have our aid. Any man or state who marches with Hitler is our foe.

-Churchill, Lord Randolph Henry Spencer
Radio broadcast on the German invasionof Russia, 22  Jun.

Thereisa certainbasis oftruth inthefear thatthe Russian government is beginning to have of communism, for communism isTsarist autocracy turned upside down.

-Herzen, Alexander Ivanovich
^7  Byloe i dumy (My Past and Thoughts, translated by Constance Garnett,1924).

Those who wait for the USSR to reject Communism must wait until a shrimp learns to whistle.

-Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeyevich
  Speech in Moscow,17 Sep.

Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals, with no cure except as a guillotine might be called a cure for dandruff.

-Luce, Clare Booth
  In Newsweek, 24  Jan.

   But just think how good communism is! The state won't bother us anymore.

-Mao Zedong or MaoTse-tung
   Attributed remark. Quoted in Ross Terrill Mao:  A Biography (1980), ch.4.

   A spectre is haunting Europeöthe spectre of communism. All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holyalliance to exorcise this spectre; Pope and Tsar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police spies.

-Marx, Karl Heinrich
  The Communist Manifesto (with Friedrich Engels, translated by Samuel Moore,1888).

Between complete socialism and communism there is no difference whatever in my mind.Communism is in fact the completion of socialism; when that ceases to be militant and becomes triumphant, it will be communism.

-Morris,William
   Addressing Hammersmith Socialist Society.

There is no such thing as communism versus capitalism. There are only degrees of communism and degrees of capitalism.

-Nguyen, Xuan Oanh
  In the Eastern Express,17 May.

Communism doesn't really starve or execute that many people. Mostly it just bores them to death.

-O'Rourke, P(atrick) J(ake)
  Holidays in Hell.

Communism is like prohibition, it's a good idea but it won't work.

-Rogers,Will
  Syndicated column, Nov. Collected in TheWeeklyArticles, vol. 3 (1981).

For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion.

-Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Isayevich
  In the Listener,15 Feb.

Communism fits Germany as a saddle fits a cow.

-Stalin,Joseph originally Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili
  In conversation with the Polish politician, Stanislaw Mikolajcik, Aug.

When we reach communism, will there still be cases of marriage without love?

-Zhang,Jie
  'Love Must Not Be Forgotten', in Seven Contemporary WomenWriters (1982).