Soviet Quotes - Page 19

• People in Russia say that those who do not regret the collapse of the Soviet Union have no heart, and those that do regret it have no brain.

  Vladimir Putin

  Regret, Heart, Russia

  Interview with German television channel ARD and ZDF, May 2005.

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• During the 1930s, some of the leading intellectuals in America condemned our economic system and pointed to the centrally planned Soviet economy as a model -- all this at a time when literally millions of people were starving to death in the Soviet Union, from a famine in a country with some of the richest farmland in Europe and historically a large exporter of food.

  Thomas Sowell

  Country, Europe, America

  Thomas Sowell (2011). “Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)”, p.306, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• When we do in Grenada what the Soviet Union did in Czechoslovakia and Afghanistan, we lose moral authority and credibility.

  Jesse Jackson

  Unions, Moral, Authority

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• I would rather have the United States as the world's policeman than the Soviet Union as the world's jailer.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  War, United States, World

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• The reason why there is now no communist government in Paris is because in the circumstances of 1945 the Soviet army was not able to reach French soil.

  Joseph Stalin

  War, Army, Government

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• It is a modern tragedy that one of the Soviet Union's most intelligent and realistic leaders has served and died during the administration of the most ill-informed and dangerous man ever to occupy the White House.

  George McGovern

  War, Intelligent, Men

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• The miracle of Grenada is how quickly the Cuban workers beat their plowshares into Soviet AK-47s.

  William Cohen

  Peace, War, Miracle

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• The visual impact of a United States battleship springs from its ability to put Soviet ships on the bottom of the sea and to put devastating firepower ashore - nothing else.

  John Lehman

  Peace, Spring, War

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• Reagan bankrupted the Soviet Union by increasing armaments.

  Norman Mailer

  Unions, Armament, Soviet Union

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• If we could all take a sober look at our history, then we would no longer see this nostalgic attitude to the Soviet past that predominates among the less affected part of our society.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Attitude, Past, Looks

  Source: www.independent.co.uk

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• If you look at great human civilizations, from the Roman Empire to the Soviet Union, you will see that most do not fail simply due to external threats but because of internal weakness, corruption or a failure to manifest the values and ideals they espouse.

  Cory Booker

  Civilization, Weakness, Looks

  "Brick Towers" by Cory Booker, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 11, 2005.

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• Now all of us deplore this vast military spending. Yet, in the face of the Soviet attitude, we realize its necessity. Whatever the cost, America will keep itself secure. But in the process we must not, by our own hand, destroy or distort the American system. This we could do by useless overspending. I know one sure way to overspend. That is by overindulging sentimental attachments to outmoded military machines and concepts.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Attitude, Military, War

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• The basis of bureaucratic rule is the poverty of society in objects of consumption, with the resulting struggle of each against all. When there is enough goods in a store, the purchasers can come whenever they want to. When there is little goods, the purchasers are compelled to stand in line. When the lines are very long, it is necessary to appoint a policeman to keep order. Such is the starting point of the power of the Soviet bureaucracy. It "knows" who is to get something and who has to wait.

  Leon Trotsky

  Struggle, Order, Long

  Leon Trotsky, (2013). “The Revolution Betrayed”, p.88, Read Books Ltd

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• Reagan himself, for much of his life, was devoted against the elites. His antagonism to the Soviet Union is antagonism against oppression by the elites of the many.

  Eugene Jarecki

  Unions, Oppression, Antagonism

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In the Soviet Union you weren't allowed to speak out against the government. In the US you cannot speak out against sponsors.

  Kalle Lasn

  Government, Speaks Out, Unions

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• Why not admit that the words separation and church do not even appear in the US Constitution, he added. Instead, they do appear in Article 52 of the Constitution of the Soviet Union.

  Tim LaHaye

  Scary, Church, Why Not

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• The fascinating thing to a dispassionate observer about the structure of life in the Soviet Union is that in their efforts to produce an unknown that we may let its ideologists call Socialism the Communist dictators have produced a brutal approximation of monopoly Capitalism, a system that has all the disadvantages of our own, with none of the palliatives which come to us from surviving competition and from the essential division of economic and political power which has so far made it possible for the humane traditions of the Western world to continue.

  John Dos Passos

  Effort, Political, Competition

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• News for the godless: religion is inescapable. there has never been a human society without some form of worship. And don't point to communist societies like the Soviet Union - they worshipped blue jeans.

  Stephen Colbert

  Blue, Jeans, Religion

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• There is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe and there never will be under a Ford administration.... The United States does notconcede that those countries are under the domination of the Soviet Union.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Country, Europe, United States

  The Second Carter−Ford Presidential Debate, October 6, 1976.

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• I have no trouble publishing in Soviet astrophysical journals, but my work is unacceptable to the American astrophysical journals.
  [Referring to the trouble he had with the peer reviewers of Anglo-American astrophysical journals because his ideas often conflicted with the generally accepted or “standard"” theories.]

  Hannes Alfven

  Ideas, Peers, Conflict

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• You know, I've never believed, in anything, that you had to have role models who looked like you to do something. If I'd been waiting for a black, female, soviet specialist role model, I'd be still waiting.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Leadership, Wisdom, Work

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• In the Soviet Union, for instance, the pressure on the chess stars was immense. When Boris Spassky came home after losing that match, he found he no longer had an apartment in Moscow.

  Liz Garbus

  Stars, Home, Moscow

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think during the Cold War in America at least, there was a division; there was the Soviet government and there were the oppressed people, who were not represented by this government. That was a massive oversimplification of what the true situation was there. There were certainly many people who were completely and fully alienated from the government.

  Joe Weisberg

  War, Thinking, Government

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• If we [Americans] are a strong people, a united people, why do we always have to hear how great we are? What is this self-love? Where does this come from? It got worse, because after the war we thought we'd won it. That's the first myth. Frankly, Russia won it. The Soviet Union sacrificed far greater form than anyone else to win that war. Secondly, we had the atomic bomb. We should not have dropped it on Japan. We did as an example to the Soviets, not to defeat Japan and to save American lives. These are myths that we explode with a lot of research early on.

  Oliver Stone

  Strong, War, Winning

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Kennedy was significantly different than Eisenhower before him, and different from Johnson after him. So those three years were the beginning of a détente with the Soviet Union, a new feeling for peace, a seeking out of a new ally with the Soviet Union - the end of the Cold War, as Kennedy called it in his American University speech.

  Oliver Stone

  War, Years, Feelings

  Source: www.pbs.org

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