291 quotes found
“Man is by nature a curious animal. You can hide the truth from him temporarily, but not for ever.”
“He thought of his wife, of his son, of his youth. He thought of life. He thought of death and then he thought of life again.”
“Never give up on learning because what you put up there in your brain, he indicated my head with his index finger, the Communists wont ever be able to take away from you.”
“Stalin is dead! Stalin is dead! No school today! we yelled. Stalin is dead! No school today... was a chant to linger in my ears for years to come.”
“The cane leaves a mark on your flesh for a few hours, a day or two. The good answers to the questions leave a mark on your brain for many years, sometimes even for life, my father said.”
“All the light was now coming from the East; and it looked breathtakingly new. In a very short time, everything was nationalized, from banks to factories, from pharmacies to little distilleries.”
“My father also told me that he felt free in that little hole in the ground, much freer than he felt outside, where he was always being chased by the criminals of the regime. That freedom came from ...”
“While the new Legionnaire man eliminated his enemies in the name of God, with a cross in his hand, the new Communist man eliminated God altogether and stood on His pedestal. They were both equally ...”
“I knew that coming from a family with an unhealthy social origins, things would be harder for me. Nonetheless, in my heart, hope never died. However, over time, I had learned that trying never died...”
“The night I was born, my great uncle Moanea, the village forester, shot a wolf. The villagers roasted it in the fire and fed the meat to the dogs.”
“However, at 17 years old, I was ready to face any challenge and tackle any obstacles blocking the road to my dreams. I was ready to take on the world. I was unstoppable. Bygones were bygones. The f...”
“From being a movement aiming for universal freedom, communism turned into a system of universal despotism. That is the logic of utopia.”
“Man is the highest essence of man, hence with the categorical imperative to overthrow all relations in which man is a debased, enslaved, abandoned, despicable essence.”
“Very few tyrants argued for the slavery of the masses. Instead, they argued for their right to protect the people from themselves.”
“The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private liberty.”
“It is difficult for me to imagine what "personal liberty" is enjoyed by an unemployed person, who goes about hungry, and cannot find employment.Real liberty can exist only where exploitation has be...”
“If we regard the state as the father, and the citizens as children, there are three alternatives. First, the father may be bad and despotic:this, most people will agree, was the case in Czarist Rus...”
“Finally liberty has come!”
“The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.”
“...The arbitrary power of the Government is unlimited, and unexampled in history; freedom of the Press, of opinion and of movement are as thoroughly exterminated as though the proclamation of the R...”
