A non-Communist premier with Communist ministers would be like a woman trying to stay half pregnant.

-Bohlen, Charles Eustis
Of  Winston Churchill's suggestion that the West share spheres of influence with  Joseph Stalin in the post-war development of the Balkans. Quoted in Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas The Wise Men (1986).

I was a man lucky enough to have discovered a political theory, a man who was caught up in the whirlpool of Cuba's political crisis long before becoming a fully- fledged communist. Discovering Marxism was like finding a map in a forest.

-Castro (Ruz), Fidel
Speech, Chile,18 Nov.

   We savaged them, though they had never hurt us, and we cannot find it in our hearts, our honor, to give them helpöbecause the government of Vietnam is Communist. And perhaps because they won.

-Gellhorn, Martha Ellis
  On the Vietnamese. The Face of War (rev edn),'The War in Vietnamö Vietnam  Again,1986'.

A test case of US capacity to help a nation meet a Communist 'war of liberation'.

-McNamara, Robert Strange
  Of the Vietnam War. Quoted in N Sheehan The Pentagon Papers.

   Every Communist must grasp the truth that political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

-Mao Zedong or MaoTse-tung
  'Problems of  War and Strategy', speech, 6 Nov.

In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each canbecomeaccomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing todayand another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening or criticize after dinner, just as I desire, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

-Marx, Karl Heinrich
  The German Ideology (with Friedrich Engels).

   Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. they have a world to win. Working men of all countries, unite!

-Marx, Karl Heinrich
  The Communist Manifesto (with Friedrich Engels, translated by Samuel Moore,1888), closing words. This translation was approved by Engels, but the phrase is also known as'Workers of the world, unite'. The literal translation of the German is'Proletarians of all lands, unite.'

Only in a higher phase of communist society†can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be crossed in its entirety, and society inscribe on its banners,'From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs!' See Bakunin 53:25.

-Marx, Karl Heinrich
  Critique of the Gotha Programme, May.

Patriotism inVietnamtook the communist road because it was the only one available. It had the appeal of a dream, a dream of social justice.

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

The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.

-Orwell, George pseudonym of  Eric Arthur Blair
  'The Prevention of Literature', in Polemic,  Jan.

Every communist has a fascist frown, every fascist a communist smile.

-Spark, Dame Muriel Sarah ne¤  e  Camberg
  The Girls of Slender Means.

Are you now, or have you ever been, a member of the Communist Party?

-Thomas,John Parnell
^57  Stock question to those called before the House of Representatives Committee on Un-American Activities.

IfIhadtodoitoveragain,Iwouldnotevenbeacommunist. And if Leninwerealivetoday, hewould say thesamething.

-Zhivkov,Todor
  In the SundayTimes, 9 Dec.