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“Nor would he condemn democracy outright, allowing that it might be appropriate for some countries. Still, he argued that democracy would bring disintegration to Russia, which needed “firm authority.”
― Stalin: Volume I: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928
― Stalin: Volume I: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928
“Thus it is that no cruelty whatsoever passes by without impact. Thus it is that we always pay dearly for chasing after what is cheap.”
― The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
― The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
“Lowell’s best friend was the heroically moustached art director of a tobacco magazine that published in the same building where Lowell worked at plumbing. His name was Harry Balmer, and despite the evidence of his moustache he was nervous, compulsive, and wracked with small fears. He looked his best from across a wide room; the closer you got to him, the more he seemed to fall apart into a mass of twitches and gnawed finernails and the clearer it became that this big, smart-looking moustache was a kind of bush he was trying to hide behind.”
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“It wouldn’t be right to have a responsibility and be held accountable for a job without having the authority to do it. Imagine”
― Tales from the Couch: A Clinical Psychologist's True Stories of Psychopathology
― Tales from the Couch: A Clinical Psychologist's True Stories of Psychopathology
“Revolutions are like earthquakes: they are always being predicted, and sometimes they come.”
― Stalin: Volume I: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928
― Stalin: Volume I: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928
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