Famous quotes containing the words left and/or communism:
“I had such a wonderful feeling last night, walking beneath the dark sky while cannon boomed on my right and guns on my left ... the feeling that I could change the world only by being there.”
—Viorica Butnariu, Rumanian student at Bucharest University. letter, Dec. 23, 1989, to American friend. Observer (London, Dec. 31, 1989)
“Today’s Communism can survive only if it abandons the myth of an infallible party, if it continues to think, and if it becomes democratic.”
—Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921–1990)