Daniel Muresan

“The Soviets don't want to win by war but by threat of war. They want to issue ultimatums to which we have to give in.”
― H.W. Brands, Reagan: The Life

“As individuals, we have a moral obligation no to endanger others, and that can mean endangering others with a gun, with a car, or with a virus. If a person has reason to believe that he or she may be a carrier, that person has a moral duty to be tested for AIDS; human decency requires it. And the reason is very simple: Innocent people are being infected by this virus, and some of them are going to acquire AIDS and die.”
― H.W. Brands, Reagan: The Life

“Does Europe not realize, wrote the exiled Romanian Mircea Eliade in April 1952, that she has been amputated of a part of her very flesh? "For... all these countries are in Europe, all these peoples belong to the European community.”
― Tony Judt, Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945

“In a Communist Party everyone took their instructions from above, everything was subordinate to politics. "Culture" was not a protected zone in which the Soviet writ need not run.”
― Tony Judt, Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945