Asks Quote by Vladimir Nabokov

“It is nothing but a kind of microcosmos of communism—all that psychiatry,' rumbled Pnin, in his answer to Chateau. 'Why not leave their private…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“Currently our society tends to churn out individuals that tend to ask the system, “What are you going to give or do for me?”…

— Howe U.S. Army Retired, MSG Paul R

Sorrow and frustration have their power. The world is moved by people with great discontents. Happiness is a drug. It can make men blind…

— Winifred Holtby

There is no doubt that sorrow brings one down in the world. The aristocratic privilege of silence belongs, you soon find out, to only…

— Elizabeth Bowen

There is sorrow, but I hope one can see that it is sorrow for the people who died so young and so crazy, for…

— Gerhard Richter

“Communism...muat of necessity be a saddening process for anyone who has ever tasted the intellectual pleasures of the world we live in.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Misery is a communicable disease.

— Martha Graham

It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Scholars and enlightened always want to define the differences between communism, socialism, fascism and other economic or political systems. It really doesn't matter to…

— Jake Danishevsky

Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed…

— Adlai E. Stevenson

Its [Communism's] unfortunate association with violence encourages a certain evil tendency in human beings.

— Jawaharlal Nehru

The world's religions, for all their parochialism, did supply a kind of consolation for this great ache... This shattering recognition of our mortality is…

— Stanley Kubrick