Vladimir Bukovsky Quotes

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• The pessimist is the man who believes things couldn't possibly be worse, to which the optimist replies: 'Oh yes they could!'
• Justice is always naive and self-confident; believing that it will immediately win once recognized. That is the reason why the forces of Justice are so…
• Europe, I have lived in your future, and I did not like it...
• This power, this authority, Soviet power: they killed everybody who could make any resistance, who could explain his own way of thinking and who could…
• I should like to underline: no people, no country, in which a Communist dictatorship has been established, ever found its way out of it.
• The experience of opposing mass movements was acquired by the KGB during perestroika. It was then that the politicians decided to develop and nourish mass…
• Usually, the leaders appear in the moment of the highest stress, when it is time, speaking symbolically, to go to the barricades. Then people, clever,…
• The real leaders cannot appear in the peaceful time; nor can the serious opposition emerge from within the peaceful atmosphere. Without an open confrontation, there…
• A single economy makes the constant adjustments necessary to facilitate trade impossible.
• The dream of socialists, the Maximum Programme, has always been to eliminate the private property, the family and the nation state. With the private property…
• Socialism is the gradual and less violent form of communism, and socialist is the project of the European Union, which was born in Maastricht in…

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