Michael Haneke Quotes

When you create a church, an institution, and you create a dogma. When you create an ideology, that's the danger. Communism, too, is a beautiful idea, but millions of people died when communism became an ideology.

Islam is a totalitarian ideology. It rules every aspect of life — economics, family law, whatever. It has religious symbols, it has a God, it has a book — but it’s not a religion. It can be compared with totalitarian ideologies like Communism or fascism. There is no country where Islam is dominant where you have a real democracy, a real separation between church and state.

The menace is ideology, the dogma of politics. It is a prison that makes the American experiment impossible.

When you destroy people's religious expression, they will establish secularized religions like Marxism.

As a Christian, I could never accept Communism. It is a crippling totalitarian disease.

If you think communism is too hard a word - necessitates for government to be your god. And for government to be your God, they need to destroy the concept of God. That's why communism and evolution go hand in hand. Evolution is one of the strongest tools of Marxism. Because if they can convince you that you came from a monkey, it's much easier to convince you that God does not exist.

Things own you. That's the trouble with capitalism. Things own you. With communism and fascism - ideas own you. One idea and you can't have any other.

Islam should be compared to other totalitarian ideologies like Communism or Fascism.

The horror of Communism, Stalinism, is not that bad people do bad things -- they always do. It's that good people do horrible things thinking they are doing something great.

Though Stalinism may have been a needless tragedy for both the Russian people and communism as an ideal, there is the intellectually tantalizing possibility that for the world at large it was, as we shall see, a blessing in disguise.

Communist propaganda would sometimes include statements such as "we include almost all the commandments of the Gospel in our ideology". The difference is that the Gospel asks all this to be achieved through love, through self-limitation, but socialism only uses coercion. This is one point.

The people look forbidding, solemn, marked by that impossible ideal, Communism, which, like Christianity, seemed to demand too much of humanity and, falling into the wrong hands, led too easily to horrible brutality.

Early on I saw the repression and idolatry of Stalinism, and when it cracked, I was open to religion again.

Communism destroys democracy. Democracy can also destroy Communism.

Here we were, corrupting all those Russians toward communism.

20th-century totalitarian movements were no more defined by a rejection of Judeo-Christianity than they were defined by a rejection of astrology, alchemy, Confucianism, Scientology, or any of hundreds of other belief systems.

I have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die.

Communism was something so hideous that you had to be an exceptional conformist or a fool not to see the evil around you.

How can you tell when a political ideology has become the equivalent of a religion?

Fascism is a religious concept.

For dynamic energy, driving force, and discipline, the Russian Communist Party is unique the world over, perhaps even throughout history.

There could be no greater act of madness than to imagine that we can reform Communists by marrying them.

You must fight not only against open fascism but also against concealed fascism which parades under the mask of “socialism.”

We are at the crossroads. One road leads toward fascism, the other towards Communism. I take the road to fascism.

I do not believe that Communism will overwhelm the free world.