It is people who are violent, rather than "religions"; and since we secularised our politics we have had two major world wars,… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
I have one of the strongest records in fighting for senior citizens. I led the effort to prevent cuts to Social Security.… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
I see that not everyone in the West has understood that the Soviet Union has disappeared from the political map of the… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
“In fact, among the people I met, the term soviet served essentially as a synonym for 'fucked up'. I'd been in the… — Anthony DeCurtis Copy Share Image
The Soviet Union could not exist without the image of the empire. The image of the empire could not exist without the… — Boris Yeltsin Copy Share Image
The one great exception to the apathy on reunification is, naturally enough, Berlin. Encircled by the hostile Soviet Zone for ten years,… — J. Anthony Lukas Copy Share Image
The Russian revolution did not occur until a generation after Marx's death. He was not involved with it, or with what came… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
I think ex-Soviet or Russian-Jewish women are tougher and that comes through. And if they are more pragmatic than the men, it's… — David Bezmozgis Copy Share Image
The fascinating thing to a dispassionate observer about the structure of life in the Soviet Union is that in their efforts to… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
Russia can fall apart. It's not because of the oil prices ... It's because what sticks a country together is a common… — Ilya Ponomarev Copy Share Image
The Soviet Union began by banishing God. The United States began as a community of people who wanted to worship God as… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
Communism wasn't a word that I thought of when I went to Cuba. The original Fidelistas were not Communists. They were graduate… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
So far, the Far Eastern focal point of danger is the most active.It is possible, however, that the center of the menace… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
News for the godless: religion is inescapable. there has never been a human society without some form of worship. And don't point… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
The challenge is whether China as a rising country, the United States as the superpower, can develop a cooperative relationship in this… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
If the United States and the United Nations truly want peace and security let them fulfill the hopes of the common people… — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
Why should the Negroes ever fight against the only nations of the world where racial discrimination is prohibited, and where the people… — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
“It is one of the many ironies of this period that, at a time when the intelligentsia were excoriating Mellon for tax-evasion,… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
After reading The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander's stunning work of scholarship, one gains the terrible realization that, for people of color,… — David Levering Lewis Copy Share Image
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As for us, we were never concerned with the Kantian-priestly and vegetarian-Quaker prattle about the "sacredness of human life." We were revolutionaries… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
Secret ops by secret forces have a nasty tendency to produce unintended, unforeseen, and completely disastrous consequences. New Yorkers will remember well… — Nick Turse Copy Share Image
One of the greatest concerns that I had when I became President was the vast array of nuclear weapons in the arsenals… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Our scientists all the more occupy advanced positions in the development of world science. By the example of their successes in the… — Vyacheslav Molotov Copy Share Image
Soviet-era nostalgia has strong support among the people. But not among the elite and, in my opinion, not with the president. We… — Vladislav Surkov Copy Share Image
Cyprus had developed its financial center over three decades ago by having double taxation treaties with a number of countries: the Soviet… — Athanasios Orphanides Copy Share Image
“Right and wrong, good conduct and moral rectitude, have certain well-defined limits.” “So, for the matter of that,” replied Reginald, “has the… — Saki Copy Share Image
I don't know about scared, but 'Chernobyl' definitely made me deeply uncomfortable. Almost addictively uncomfortable: don't know what that says about me.… — Alexander Armstrong Copy Share Image
Of course, the kind of support that Cuba could give us was very limited when it came to building up our army,… — Daniel Ortega Copy Share Image
I've always criticised American policy when I've disagreed with it. Just as I've criticised British policy. I was violently anti-Suez and pro-American… — Denis Healey Copy Share Image
After a great deal of discussion in Soviet literature about the correct definition of a combination, it was decided that from the… — Alexander Kotov Copy Share Image
It was thought that to rally Islam against godless communism would be doing the Soviet Union a very bad turn indeed, and… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that the second President Bush inherited a very serious terrorist threat, though not such a threat as had… — Conrad Black Copy Share Image
My parents and my brother and I left the Soviet Union in 1981. I was six, and Dima was sixteen, and that… — Keith Gessen Copy Share Image
Before there was the Soviet Union that could inflame matters. Now you have states not as powerful as the Soviet Union, but… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
“Ask a Soviet engineer to design a pair of shoes and he’ll come up with something that looks like the boxes that… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
On the day I became Soviet leader, in March 1985, I had a special meeting with the leaders of the Warsaw Pact… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
Those who remember Washington's cold war culture in the 1980s will recall the shocked reactions to Reagan's intervention. People interested in foreign… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
In the midst of our wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Putin invaded the Republic of Georgia. Let's call it for what it… — Kelly Ayotte Copy Share Image
The word "people" is unpleasant to me. The phrase "Soviet people" was drummed into us from childhood on. I love concrete people,… — Vladimir Sorokin Copy Share Image
![“So far, the Far Eastern focal point of danger is the most active.It is possible, however, that the center of the menace may shift to Europe. Evidence of this is provided, for instance, by [Adolf] Hitler's recent interview given to a French paper. In this interview, Hitler seems to attempt to say…” quote by Joseph Stalin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2b3/joseph-stalin-1734_active_so-far-the-far-eastern-focal-point-of-da_1075539.jpg)
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