291 quotes found
“If Stalin gives you a love advice, it has to succeed.”
“So you, too, like fruitcake? (RW on meeting Lenin in Zurich during World War I.)”
“It's not your enemies who condemn you to solitude, it's your friends”
“You cannot have a society of angels except in heaven”
“Look now,' Vesna's mother continued, 'what do you know, a civil war might break out any minute: Serbs would fight with Croats, Czechs would fight with Slovaks, Hungarians would fight with Jews. how...”
“That day I saw people trying to feed themselves but managing to do so only on a subsistence level. And people who are hungry are not worried about communism or Communists.”
“Dr. Kim couldn't remember the last time she'd seen a bowl of pure white rice. What was a bowl of rice doing there, just sitting out on the ground? She figured it out just before she heard the dog's...”
“Democracy is not a form of government. It is a tool of government. Case in point, Stalinist USSR was a "democracy".”
“Comrade, your statement is factually incorrect. Yes, it is. But it is politically correct. (The Rise of Political Correctness)”
“Socialism always produces evil results, no matter one's intentions.”
“We are in a prison of our own minds holding our own chains around us. We create our oligarchs and fight for their right to oppress us.”
“These self-styled liberals and progressives are honestly convinced that they are true democrats. But their notion of democracy is just the opposite of that of the nineteenth century. They confuse d...”
“The very principle of democracy is founded on the possibility of making alternative choices. There is no longer a need for democracy, since ideology made the idea that "there is no alternative" acc...”
“Prosperity and democracy does seem to be a good way to wean a population off massive alcohol abuse.”
“The modern world, which denies personal guilt and admits only social crimes, which has no place for personal repentance but only public reforms, has divorced Christ from His Cross; the Bridegroom a...”
“Communists are the last optimists.”
“It was becoming evident to many that while evil grows all by itself, good can be achieved only through hard struggle and maintained only through tireless effort, ..”
“When, in the course of development, class distinctions have disappeared and all production has been concentrated in the hands of a vast association of the whole nation, the public power will lose i...”
“Parvus denied that universal suffrage was an end to itself since the middle class would always find ways to manipulate the electoral system. Freedom could not be begged for: it had to be won.”
“Revolutionaries do not only have different ideas (or even actions) from pseudo-revolutionaries. What they are is different, and the way they act is. They do not try to enrol people in order to repr...”
