Time Quote by Aldous Huxley

[Vladimir] Lenin died in January, 1924; three months later [Joseph] Stalin expounded in writing Lenin's conception of the proletarian revolution.

— Leon Trotsky

“(Of his first wife, Ekatarina, who had died of tuberculosis in 1907, a year after their marriage, Stalin had reportedly said: “With her died…

— Nigel Hamilton

Inconsiderate to the last, Josef Stalin, a man who never had to meet a deadline, had the bad taste to die in installments.

— A. J. Liebling

“Lenina suddenly remembered an occasion when, as a little girl at school, she had woken up in the middle of the night and become…

— Aldous Huxley

“Lenina was left to face the horrors of Malpais unaided. They came crowding in on her thick and fast. The spectacle of two young…

— Aldous Huxley

“There, on a low bed, the sheet flung back, dressed in a pair of pink one-piece zippyjamas, lay Lenina, fast asleep and so beautiful…

— Aldous Huxley

“[Father Dmitry] “lived through collectivization, the crushing of the 80 percent of Russians that were peasants. He served as a soldier in World War…

— Oliver Bullough

“Lenina was shocked by his blasphemy. 'Bernard!' she protested in a voice of amazed distress. 'How can you?' In a different key, 'How can…

— Aldous Huxley

“No betrayal was more acute than Molotov’s for his beloved wife Polina Zhemchuzhina, a Jew who was arrested in 1948 and did not return…

— Mark B. Smith

“Having lived in a mythical country, a place neither here nor there, these intellectuals from Vilna and Gomel helped create another and called it…

— Alan Furst

If you have a disease of the old society, take a dose of Lenin as medication.

— Pol Pot

“During the war, Monod had joined the Communist Party as a matter of expediency, so that he could join the FTP. But he developed…

— Sean B. Carroll