1926 Quotes

“When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.”
― Maxim Gorky

“What is politics but fraud? Whatever your own, honest, candid opinion might be, you have to act according to the creed of the party, [at times] against the voice of your conscience, and thus be dependent upon others for your actions, which is quite opposed to the fundamental principles of Truth.”
― Meher Baba

“My experience with short rations in many places has convinced me that we would all be healthier and better nourished if we ate half as much food and chewed it twice as long.”
― Jack Black, You Can't Win

“Koba's appearance and his vulgarity in argument always made his sallies unpleasant. His speeches were always devoid of wit and had the character of straightforward exposition. But what was perpetually astonishing was his machinelike memory. When you stared at his poorly developed forehead and small cranium, it seemed like you could puncture it like a cylinder of gas, and all of Marx's Kapital would hiss out noisily. Marxism was his element; in it he was indomitable. There was no power that could budge him from a position.… He knew how to place any phenomenon under an appropriate Marxian formula.”
― S. Vereshchak, Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin: The Intelligentsia and Power