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Violence never settles anything should be debated by the ghosts of Hitler and Stalin, with the city fathers of Carthage as referees. — Robert A. Heinlein
I got very well acquainted with Joe Stalin, and I like old Joe! He is a decent fellow. But Joe is a prisoner of the… — Harry S. Truman
What will happen once the authentic mass man takes over, we do not know yet, although it may be a fair guess that he will… — Hannah Arendt
If you read about Mussolini or Stalin or some of these other great monsters of history, they were at it all the time, that they… — A. N. Wilson
The Soviet Union at this time was being run by the Communists, a group of men fierce in their dedication to wearing hilariously bad suits.… — Dave Barry
Stalin didn't write any memoirs. He was too secretive. He was afraid people might read them. — Jonathan Lynn
I suspect the soviets never did want to use those bombs. The most Stalinist of Soviet hard-liners - Stalin, for example - must have realized… — P.J. O'Rourke
None of my 'clients' - not Eichmann, not Stangl, not Mengele, and not even Hitler or Stalin - was born a criminal. Somebody had to… — Simon Wiesenthal
The vital thing for me is to integrate the history from above with the history from below because only in that way can you show… — Antony Beevor
Wasn't Saddam destroyed? Wasn't Gaddafi liquidated? Didn't Milosevic go to the Hague? All true. But Stalin survived. Kim Jong-un isn't doing too badly, either -… — Robert Fisk
To suppose that the value of a common stock is determined purely by a corporation's earnings discounted by the relevant interest rates and adjusted for… — James Grant
The great crimes of the twentieth century were committed not by money-grubbing capitalists but by dedicated idealists. Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler were contemptuous of money.… — Eric Hoffer
The Jews, I find, are very, very selfish. They care not how many Estonians, Latvians, Finns, Poles, Yugoslavs or Greeks get murdered or mistreated as… — Harry S. Truman
In my view the European culture carries a very heavy responsibility for the creation of Israel... it is a product of both British and Stalin's… — Tom Paulin
The monstrous evils of the twentieth century have shown us that the greediest money grubbers are gentle doves compared with money-hating wolves like Lenin, Stalin,… — Eric Hoffer
The nineteenth century planted the words which the twentieth century ripened into the atrocities of Stalin and Hitler. There is hardly an atrocity committed in… — Eric Hoffer
In some circles Stalin has in fact been making a comeback. His portrait hangs above the dashboard of trucks, a symbol of blue- collar nostalgia… — Serge Schmemann
With the idea that a single creator can build a society wherein a huge number of people will live, Le Corbusier later approached Stalin. In… — Masato
Comrade Stalin, having become Secretary-General, has unlimited authority concentrated in his hands, and I am not sure whether he will always be capable of using… — Vladimir Lenin
It's a real enigma why people are so averse to real free market capitalism even now. Here we are, in the century that has seen… — Joseph Sobran
Even Stalin proclaimed his love for democracy. We do not learn about the nature of systems of power by listening to their rhetoric. — Noam Chomsky
We both agreed that Stalin was determined to hold out against the Germans. He told us he'd never let them get to Moscow. But if… — W. Averell Harriman
Poland, of course, was the key country. I remember Stalin telling me that the plains of Poland were the invasion route of Europe to Russia… — W. Averell Harriman
Even now we feel that Stalin was devoted to Communism, he was a Marxist, this cannot and should not be denied. — Nikita Khrushchev
Stalin is the most popular figure in all of Russia. — Vladimir Putin

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