40 Movie Quotes about Communists (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Mar 1, 2026

Memorable quotes about communists, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 I thought I was going back to Vietnam, but instead, they decided the best way for me to fight the Communists was to play Ping-Pong.

Tom Hanks as Forrest Gump in Forrest Gump (1994)

2 I can no longer sit back and allow communist infiltration, communist indoctrination, communist subversion and the international communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.

Sterling Hayden as General Jack D. Ripper in Dr. Strangelove

3 Don't you understand? The Bolsheviks are everywhere! They're taking over! They're coming out of the sewers like rats. Climbing up our flagpole and gnawing away at our Stars and Stripes!

Vincent Gardenia as Sheriff "Honest Pete" Hartman in The Front Page (1974)

4 You'll receive the order of Lenin for this, Captain.

Tim Curry as Yevgeni Petrov in The Hunt for Red October

5 And that's nothin' but pure and simple old-fashioned Communism.

Jackie Gleason as Sheriff Buford T. Justice "Smokey"; Sheriff Buford T. Justice in Smokey and the Bandit (1977)

6 I'd kill a Communist for fun, but for a green card, I gonna carve him up real nice.

Al Pacino as Tony Montana in Scarface (1983)

7 Mr. President, I'm beginning to smell a big fat commie rat.

George C. Scott as General Buck Turgidson in Dr. Strangelove

8 You goddamn communist heathen. Sound off that you love the Virgin Mary or I'm gonna stomp your guts out.

Lee Ermey as Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in Full Metal Jacket

9 Your Commie has no regard for human life, not even his own.

Sterling Hayden as General Jack D. Ripper in Dr. Strangelove

10 You a Communist? Huh? How'd you like it? They tell you always what to do, what to think, what to feel.

Al Pacino as Tony Montana in Scarface (1983)