Czar Quote by Simon Sebag Montefiore Download Open image “Mr. Putin presents himself as a czar - and like any czar, he fears revolution above all else.” — Simon Sebag Montefiore ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Czar Fears He Like Revolution
“Fear has also been used to carry out a redistribution of wealth—which is to say back under the control of the state, where Putin… — Gregory Feifer Copy Share Image
Vladimir Putin is creating an axis of authoritarian regimes that he will lead. — Malcolm Nance Copy Share Image
I looked at Putin and was terrified from the very beginning. That makes me look very prescient because he actually turned out to be… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
Putin's an egomaniac, so there are two ways he can process his ego mania. He can say, "Oh, I stood up to the U.S.,"… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be worse than the Tsar himself. — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
Dictatorships sometimes fall unexpectedly and quickly. And [Vladimir] Putin knows that for him, the loss of power doesn't mean a comfortable retirement, but something… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
The mentality of the Russian demands a lord, a czar, a president. — Valentina Matviyenko Copy Share Image
Of course for some Putin is a tyrant and dictator. Others consider him Russia's savior. But I'm in a difficult position. Putin helped my… — Ksenia Sobchak Copy Share Image
Putin is no different than any other powerful man, like a Senator, or a President. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
“Like most regimes not based on genuine popular support in an era of open access to information, Putin’s is inherently unstable and requires vigilant… — Gregory Feifer Copy Share Image
Putin stands for the opposite of a universal ideology; he has become an arch-nationalist of a pre-Cold War type, making mystic appeals to motherland and religion. — George Packer Copy Share
Trump wants to be the first American tsar. With his hero worship of Putin, his admiration for the apparent omnipotence of the Kremlin, schoolboyish… — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
“History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind." --- Edward Gibbon” — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
Every Russian emperor from Peter the Great to Stalin and Putin knows a leader and his security agencies must never be parted. His safety… — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
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“Iraq was already in the grip of a bloody insurgency against British rule. Churchill therefore called a conference in Cairo to hand over a… — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
I don't think Jerusalem should be controlled 100% by religious people of any denomination, sect, or religion - even my own. — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
The memoirs of the Grand Duchess Olga are an entertaining record for anyone interested in the imperial family's home life during the last years… — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
I am a passionate nonfinisher. Life is too short, and there are too many great books to read, so if I lose interest or… — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
There is a view of Russian exceptionalism, that they are a unique civilisation, a view right since Ivan the Terrible that Russia is a… — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
The political lives of tyrants play out human affairs with a special intensity: the death of a democratic leader long after his retirement is… — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
“All power has its derivation from God; the Russian Czar, however, was granted a special significance distinguishing him from the rest of the world's… — Mikhail Nikiforovich Katkov Copy Share Image
And said to myself, as I lit my cigar, "Supposing a man had the wealth of the Czar Of the Russias to boot, for… — William Allen Butler Copy Share Image
“A specter is haunting Europe—the specter of Communism. All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this specter;… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image