Failure Quote by Anna Reid

“Why should we always try to be true to our natural selves? What if our natural selves are assholes? Stalin was true to himself”

— A.J. Jacobs

“If Stalin gives you a love advice, it has to succeed.”

— Slavoj Žižek

“There were no disagreements in Stalin’s universe, only heresies; no critics, only enemies; no errors, only crimes. The trials served both to illustrate Stalin’s…

— Tony Judt

“And there were no signs whatever of the disagreements among capitalists—or of the Anglo-American war—that Stalin’s ideological illusions had led him to expect.”

— John Lewis Gaddis

“This absolute lack of objectivity might be said to resemble nothing so much as the lack of objectivity these same people had shown during…

— Vasily Grossman

“Americans talked about voters the way Russians talked about Stalin: they had to be obeyed, right or wrong.”

— Ken Follett

“To choose one's victims, to prepare one's plans minutely, to slake an implacable vengeance, and then to go to bed ... there is nothing…

— Robert Harris

“Stalin has stolen more than lands. Hannelore, he has stolen human dignity. I see it in their forlorn eyes and broken posture. It's all…

— Ruta Sepetys

“we have no idea anymore what it means to feel guilty. The Communists have the excuse that Stalin misled them. Murderers have the excuse…

— Milan Kundera

“I heard of that bloodthirsty old murderer Josef Stalin inviting all nations to join a happy family of folks devoted to the abolition of…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“Though Stalin was no more to be trusted than was Hitler, and though he was responsible for the deaths of more citizens of his…

— Archie Brown

We became convinced that, regardless of Stalin's awful brutality and his reign of terror, he was a great war leader. Without Stalin, they never…

— W. Averell Harriman