Dreams Quote by Jonathan Kirsch

“Hitler and Stalin, are too big to let each other live in the same world.”

— Time Inc

“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

“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

“Hitler knew nothing about his enemies and even refused to use the information that was available to him. Instead, he trusted his inspirations, no…

— Albert Speer

“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

“Not only to myself or before the mirror or at the hour of my death, which I hope will be long in coming, but…

— Roberto Bolaño

“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

“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

“Stalin's mental journey, by 1943, proceeded in the opposite direction to that of Hitler. One moved toward reality; the other moved away from it.…

— Martin Amis

“Hitler and Stalin both accepted a late-nineteenth-century Darwinistic modification: progress was possible, but only as a result of violent struggle between races or classes.”

— Timothy Snyder

“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

“And so the Red Army, squeezed between two of the most brutal dictators in human history, fought on. - Symphony for the City of…

— M T Anderson