Communism/theory

Famous quotes containing the words communism and/or theory:

“You’ll see certain Pythagoreans whose belief in communism of property goes to such lengths that they pick up anything lying about unguarded, and make off with it without a qualm of conscience as if it had come to them by law.”
—Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1466–1536)

“Could Shakespeare give a theory of Shakespeare?”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)