Besides Getting my ass kicked, my main accomplishment on…

“It may seem somewhat ironic that the Catholic Church finds itself advocating the same position against abortion as its severest Christian critics, the Protestant…

— Jack Holland

“Is it too imaginative to say that if the Schlieffen Plan had worked, Adolf Hitler might have remained a private in the List Regiment…

— James L. Stokesbury

“Once in power, Stalin’s campaign to succeed Lenin required a legitimate heroic career which he did not possess because of his experience in what…

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

“Even in former days, Korea was known as the 'hermit kingdom' for its stubborn resistance to outsiders. And if you wanted to create a…

— Christopher Hitchens

Joseph Stalin is a titan of thought. His name is to be given to an entire century.

— Palmiro Togliatti

“Tiffany learned that Lin had stolen Tiffany’s book title idea: “2 girls 1 cup.” A month ago, Tiffany had confided to Lin about Tiffany’s…

— Lin Xun

Our differences with [Joseph] Stalin are entirely of a strategical character.

— Leon Trotsky

“The fervor and single-mindedness of this deification probably have no precedent in history. It's not like Duvalier or Assad passing the torch to the…

— Christopher Hitchens

Just as Chairman Mao and Joseph Stalin started by going after the intellectuals, against those whose words who might form an opposition to them,…

— Andrew Solomon

“ Joseph Stalin was a great man; few other men of the 20th century approach his stature. He was simple, calm and courageous. He…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

During World War II, Joseph Stalin was once asked by an American writer, according to Professor Dean Russell, how he could justify conscripting all…

— Ron Paul

Only in the Fall of 1924 did [Joseph] Stalin discover that it is especially Russia, as distinguished from other countries, which can by its…

— Leon Trotsky

“[Jürgen Habermas' obituary to friend and philosopher, Richard Rorty] One small autobiographical piece by Rorty bears the title 'Wild Orchids and Trotsky.' In it,…

— Jürgen Habermas

“When I first saw the sand, I thought it was beautiful. Like maybe it'd be fun to just roll around in and make sand…

— Victoria Scott

As a Polish American, I grew up hearing the phrase 'nothing about us without us.' To Eastern Europeans, the vow is a painful reminder…

— Tom Malinowski