Communists Quotes

(On John Wayne`s 1971 interview with Playboy magazine) That doesn`t need a reply, it`s self-evident. You can`t even get mad at it; it`s so insane that there`s just nothing to say about it. He would be, according to his point of view, someone not disposed to returning any of the colonial possessions in Africa or Asia to their rightful owners. He would be sharing a perspective with B.J. Vorster if he were in South Africa. He would be on the side of Ian Smith. He would have shot down Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi), called him a rabble rouser. The only freedom fighters he would recognize would be those who were fighting Communists; if they were fighting to get out from under colonial rule, he`d call them terrorists. The Indians today he`d call agitators, terrorists, who knows? If John Wayne ran for President, he would get a great following ... I think he`s been enormously instrumental in perpetuating this view of the Indian as a savage, ferocious, destructive force. He`s made us believe things about the Indian that were never true and perpetuated the myth about how wonderful the frontiersmen were and how decent and honorable we all were.

I don`t think there`s any question that the Communists are behind a great deal of unrest in the United States. In addition, I feel they are still a potential danger in show business. (1970)

I believed in the John Wayne image of America. My father was a Republican, and he taught me that it was a good war because the Communists were the bad guys and we had to fight them. And then there was the romanticism of the Second World War as it appeared in the films we mentioned. Obviously, the reality was very different.

I was studying American politicians who were searching - allegedly - for American communists because it would put them on the front pages of the papers in their home towns.

When I was growing up, it was `Communists`. Now it`s `Terrorists`. So you always have to have somebody to fight and be afraid of, so the war machine can build more bombs, guns, and bullets and everything.

I was taken in by what might be called the Hard Times version of the Communists` advertising or recruiting technique.

I hate the Communists and have for many years and don`t feel right about giving up my career to defend them. I will give up my film career if it is in the interests of defending something I believe in, but not this.

For years after I resigned, I was still faithful to their way of thinking. But not in the American Communists.

I was even superior to the Communists and when they didn`t go along with me, I quit them.

The Communists automatically violated the daily practices of democracy to which I was accustomed.

I`m proud of our court. It knocks back a lot of the propaganda the Communists put out about the way America treats her Negroes.

My parents didn`t agree with what was going on, you know, with the communists coming in, Fidel Castro. I didn`t see the reason why I needed to go back there and be a part of that exhibition.

It seems to me the people in the (Communist) Party not only know what`s going on in the world but they have the guts to determine a course of action.... In Yugoslavia...when the going got rough and it was time to be counted, it was the Communists who stood up and fought.

The present U.N. must be annihilated by our power. That is the stage for Communists. We must make a new U.N.

I`m a Red-baiter; I`m a witch-hunter if the witches are Communists.

Not only are Christians writing about Jesus, but also Communists, Jews, atheists and agnostics are taking up their pens to paint a portrait of Jesus.

First they came for the Communists but I was not a Communist so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Socialists and the Trade Unionists but I was not one of them, so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Jews but I was not Jewish so I did not speak out. And when they came for me, there was no one left to speak out for me.

It was the process of fighting with Communists, getting each company to sell to the private owners who kill the Communists. There is no alternative.

There are only two sorts of people in life you can trust - good Christians and good Communists.

Anarchists are socialists because they want the improvement of society, and they are communists because they are convinced that such a transformation of society can only result from the establishment of a commonwealth of property.

The aims of anarchists and true communists are identical.

The populations of Central America are very, very small indeed, so that while no one was denying and this was one of the great debates we used to have, whose fault was it that there were communists were able to do so well down there, well, that wasn`t the point.

I would think that if you understood what Communism was, you would hope, you would pray on your knees, that we would someday become communists.

"How can there be peace when drunkards, drug dealers, communists, atheists, New Age worshipers of Satan, secular humanists, oppressive dictators, greedy money changers, revolutionary assassins, adulterers, and homosexuals are on top?

I do not believe in Communism any more than you do but there is nothing wrong with the Communists in this country; several of the best friends I have got are Communists