Communism is like one big phone company.

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Leonard Alfred Schneider (October 13, 1925 – August 3, 1966), better known by his stage name Lenny Bruce, was an American stand-up comedian, social critic, and satirist. He was renowned for his open, free-wheeling, and critical style of comedy that combined satire, politics, religion, sex, and vulgarity. His 1964 conviction...

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You can't get snot off a suede jacket.

When you're eight years old nothing is your business.

Miami Beach is where neon goes to die.

When you are eight years old, nothing is any of your business.

Every day people are straying away from the Church and going back to God.

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Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.

—John Kenneth Galbraith

Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.

When I gave food to the poor, they called me a saint. When I asked why the poor were hungry, they called me a communist.

—Dom H. Camara

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Romania had been under communist rule since 1945, but it was after Ceausescu came to power in 1965 that life really began to deteriorate.… Then, one night in the late 1980s, a group of men dressed as street sweepers draped the statue of Lenin in Bucharest with big truck tires and set them on fire. It was a bold and daring act in a country where, it was said, for every Romanian on the street there were two secret police officers. The next morning traffic was detoured while workers from nearby factories were brought in to clean the statue with razor blades. That day I realized that change was possible.

—Florin Ion Firimita

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How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.

—Ronald Reagan

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