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Cold War4 quotes
Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you. — Nikita Khrushchev · 1956The guilt of Stalin and his immediate entourage before the Party and the people for the mass repressions and lawlessness they committed is enormous and unforgivable. — Mikhail Gorbachev · 1987If anyone believes that our smiles involve abandonment of the teaching of Marx, Engels and Lenin he deceives himself. Those who wait for that must wait until a shrimp learns to whistle. — Nikita Khrushchev · 1955Tolerance is the alpha and omega of a new world order. — Mikhail Gorbachev · 1990Soviet Union3 quotes
Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you. — Nikita Khrushchev · 1956The guilt of Stalin and his immediate entourage before the Party and the people for the mass repressions and lawlessness they committed is enormous and unforgivable. — Mikhail Gorbachev · 1987If anyone believes that our smiles involve abandonment of the teaching of Marx, Engels and Lenin he deceives himself. Those who wait for that must wait until a shrimp learns to whistle. — Nikita Khrushchev · 1955Desperation1 quote
You only have power over people as long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power-he's free again. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn · 1968Duality of man1 quote
If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart? — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn · 1973Fearlessness1 quote
There was peace in their hearts. They were filled with the fearlessness of those who have lost everything, the fearlessness which is not easy to come by but which endures. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn · 1968Freedom1 quote
You only have power over people as long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power-he's free again. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn · 1968Good and evil1 quote
If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart? — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn · 1973International politics1 quote
Tolerance is the alpha and omega of a new world order. — Mikhail Gorbachev · 1990Laws of physics1 quote
A society based on the letter of the law and never reaching any higher fails to take advantage of the full range of human possibilities. The letter of the law is too cold and formal to have a beneficial influence on society. Whenever the tissue of life is woven of legalistic relationships, this creates an atmosphere of spiritual mediocrity that paralyzes man’s noblest impulses. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn · 1978Legalism1 quote
A society based on the letter of the law and never reaching any higher fails to take advantage of the full range of human possibilities. The letter of the law is too cold and formal to have a beneficial influence on society. Whenever the tissue of life is woven of legalistic relationships, this creates an atmosphere of spiritual mediocrity that paralyzes man’s noblest impulses. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn · 1978Liberation1 quote
You only have power over people as long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power-he's free again. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn · 1968Marxism1 quote
If anyone believes that our smiles involve abandonment of the teaching of Marx, Engels and Lenin he deceives himself. Those who wait for that must wait until a shrimp learns to whistle. — Nikita Khrushchev · 1955New world order1 quote
Tolerance is the alpha and omega of a new world order. — Mikhail Gorbachev · 1990Nothing to lose1 quote
You only have power over people as long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power-he's free again. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn · 1968Oppression1 quote
You only have power over people as long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power-he's free again. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn · 1968Politics1 quote
Tolerance is the alpha and omega of a new world order. — Mikhail Gorbachev · 1990Power of art1 quote
The only substitute for an experience we ourselves have never lived through is art, literature. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn · 1972Power of literature1 quote
The only substitute for an experience we ourselves have never lived through is art, literature. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn · 1972Stalin1 quote
The guilt of Stalin and his immediate entourage before the Party and the people for the mass repressions and lawlessness they committed is enormous and unforgivable. — Mikhail Gorbachev · 1987Stars1 quote
In our village, folk say God crumbles up the old moon into stars. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn · 1962The moon1 quote
In our village, folk say God crumbles up the old moon into stars. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn · 1962The night sky1 quote
In our village, folk say God crumbles up the old moon into stars. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn · 1962Tolerance1 quote
Tolerance is the alpha and omega of a new world order. — Mikhail Gorbachev · 1990