Progress is impossible without change and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything
— George Bernard Shaw
From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs
— Karl Marx
Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do
— Bertrand Russell
The Marxist analysis has got nothing to do with what happened in Stalin's Russia; it's like blaming Jesus Christ for the Inquisition in Spain
— Tony Benn
The workers have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to gain. Workers of the world, unite
— Karl Marx
All I know is that I am not a Marxist
— Karl Marx
In a state worthy of the name there is no liberty. The people want to exercise power but what on earth would they do with it if it were given to them?
— Lenin
I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death
— Patrick Henry
When the People contend for their Liberty, they seldom get anything by their Victory but new masters
— Lord Halifax
In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State
— Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Communism continued to haunt Europe as a spectre - a name men gave to their own fears and blunders. But the crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the spectre of Communism
— A. J. P. Taylor
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organisation cannot live a full-blooded life
— Mickhail Gorbachov
None ought to be lords or landlords over another, but the earth is free for every son and daughter of mankind to live free upon.