Wise quotes from the past
October 29, 2009“The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But under the name of ’liberalism’ they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.”
Norman Thomas, candidate for President for the Socialist Party in a 1944 speech
“Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.”
Chairman Mao Zedong
1893-1976, Founder of Chinese Communist State and a favorite philosopher of Anita Dunn, White House Communications Director appointed by Obama
“To make men socialists is nothing, but to make socialism human is a great thing.”
Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, Anglo-Irish writer and hysterically funny. Read The Importance of Being Earnest for a good chuckle.
“Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals . . . no cure except as a guillotine might be called a cure for dandruff.”
Clare Boothe Luce
1903-1987, American diplomat, writer
And lest history forget, the ever popular “Why you cut light off?”