Promise Quote by Ramachandra Guha

“Lenin only believes in the revolution and in the virtue of expediency.'One must be prepared for every sacrifice, to use, if necessary, every stratagem,…

— albert camus

“The most important one was the belief, which went back to Lenin, that capitalists would never be able to cooperate with one another for…

— John Lewis Gaddis

“Promises,” his gran had said once, her sour commentary on the whole affair, “are like pie crusts—meant to be broken.”

— John Harvey

“Morally, there was the extreme disappointment at the failure of the classical socialist ideal. The great ideal of Marxism had failed to materialize. The…

— Stephen R.C. Hicks

Promises and pie crusts : are both meant to be broken...

— Citlalli V Classics

“Never promise to make pie and fail to deliver on that promise.”

— Kate Lebo

Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.

— Jonathan Swift

Promises and pie crusts are made to be broken.

— Anonymous

“No doubt Confucius, as a person and as represented in the written tradition, is suffering an eclipse in Communist China because he is associated…

— James R. Ware

“As I gazed at Mao’s face wearing what was intended as a benign expression but was in fact a smirk of self-satisfaction, I wondered…

— Nien Cheng

“Stalin’s first move, uncharacteristically, was to apologize to the Chinese comrades for having underestimated them: “Our opinions are not always correct,” he told a…

— John Lewis Gaddis

“The Communist Party has not done much to change China’s traditional notions of governance, and the result has been more sorrow for the Chinese…

— Gordon G. Chang