Soviet Quotes - Page 8

• What the Soviet Union was to the ideology of Marxism, the Low-Fat Campaign is to the ideology of nutritionism—its supreme test and, as now is coming clear, its most abject failure.

  Michael Pollan

  Campaigns, Unions, Tests

  Michael Pollan (2008). “In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto”, p.37, Penguin

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• Historians don't really like to carry on speculative debates, but you could certainly argue that the likelihood of a Soviet invasion of Western Europe was extremely, extremely low.

  Aldrich Ames

  Europe, Gdp, Invasion

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I found that our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced any worthwhile political or economic intelligence on the Soviet Union.

  Aldrich Ames

  Effort, Political, Unions

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When I used to theorize about a nuclear standoff, I didn't really have to understand what was happening inside the Soviet Union. It is a lot harder now to build a theory that can encompass all the complications of today's conflicts.

  Thomas Schelling

  Nuclear, Unions, Today

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• It was not Soviet people who formed the American Communist Party.

  J. Stalin

  Party, People, Communist

  Source: www.marxists.org

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• The difficulties of conducting espionage against the Soviet Union in the Soviet Union were such that historically the Agency had backed away from the task.

  Aldrich Ames

  Agency, Tasks, Unions

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• I got a cable from New York saying that what I'd written about the growth of Soviet agricultural production didn't make sense because the same levels were reached under the czars. I wanted to confirm it, but by then the censors were on to me.

  Harrison Salisbury

  New York, Growth, Levels

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• As a result of half a century of Soviet rule people have been weaned from a belief in human kindness.

  Svetlana Alliluyeva

  Kindness, People, Half

  Svetlana Alliluyeva (1969). “Only One Year”

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• What with the political monopoly, the Cheka and the Red Army, all that now existed of the 'Commune-State' of our dreams was a theoretical myth. The war, the internal measures against counterrevolution, and the famine (which had created a bureaucratic rationing apparatus) had killed off Soviet democracy. How could it revive, and when? The Party lived in the certain knowledge that the slightest relaxation of its authority would give day to reaction.

  Victor Serge

  Dream, War, Party

  Victor Serge (2002). “Memoirs of a Revolutionary”, p.133, University of Iowa Press

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• A likely source for terrorists seeking to buy or steal nuclear materials is the former Soviet Union.

  Lee H. Hamilton

  Nuclear, Unions, Stealing

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• There was no race - but to the extent that there was an arms competition, it was almost entirely on the Soviet side, first to catch up and then to surpass the Americans.

  Herman Kahn

  Race, Competition, Firsts

  Herman Kahn, Paul Dragoș Aligică, Kenneth R. Weinstein (2009). “The Essential Herman Kahn: In Defense of Thinking”, p.36, Lexington Books

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• I graduated in 1989, and I'd focused almost entirely on the Soviet Union and communism ... so when the Berlin wall fell, I was, well, I was screwed.

  Anderson Cooper

  Wall, Funny Graduation, Unions

  "Anderson Cooper Quotes Goldie Hawn, Yoko Ono In Tulane Graduation Speech". www.huffingtonpost.com. May 21, 2010.

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• Search for role models you can look up to and people who take an interest in your career. But here's an important warning: you don't have to have mentors who look like you. Had I been waiting for a black, female Soviet specialist mentor, I would still be waiting. Most of my mentors have been old white men, because they were the ones who dominated my field.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Men, White Man, Careers

  "Condoleezza Rice – Former Secretary Of State". Interview with Ruchika Tulshyan, www.littlepinkbook.com. May 20, 2013.

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• Unlike side issues like unemployment, unions, and minimum-wage laws, the subject of work itself is almost entirely absent from libertarian literature. Most of what little there is consists of Randite rantings against parasites, barely distinguishable from the invective inflicted on dissidents by the Soviet press.

  Bob Black

  Law, Issues, Unemployment

  "The Abolition of Work and Other Essays". Book by Bob Black, 1986.

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• Imagine wasting all that perfectly good anger on paranoid fantasies. Not since Emily Litella got upset about "Soviet jewelry" has there been such a waste of anger. You will notice a certain theme to these Emily Litella Moments. Behind them all is a touching faith that someone, somewhere is actually in charge of what's happening - a proposition I beg leave to doubt.

  Molly Ivins

  Perfectly Good, Upset, Touching

  Molly Ivins (2010). “You Got to Dance with Them What Brung You”, p.72, Vintage

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• National Defense A strong USA defense brought down the Soviet Union. It was Ronald Reagan - first in a speech at Notre Dame University in May 1981, then his 'Evil Empire' speech of March 1983 - who most eloquently declared communism's imminent demise. Reagan was right. And even Soviet officials attribute Ronald Reagan's rhetoric and foreign policy to bringing down that 'evil empire.' By Christmas Day, 1990, the Soviet Union ceased to exist. Liberals wished it were other things.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Strong, Usa, Evil

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• We will continue to ignore political and economic forecasts, which are an expensive distraction for many investors and
  businessmen. Thirty years ago, no one could have foreseen the huge expansion of the Vietnam War, wage and price controls, two oil shocks, the resignation of a president, the dissolution of the Soviet Union, a one-day drop in the Dow of 508 points, or treasury bill yields fluctuating between 2.8% and 17.4%.

  Warren Buffett

  War, Yield, Years

  Letter To the Shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., www.berkshirehathaway.com. March 7, 1995.

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• Silicon Valley, "the largest legal creation of wealth in history," was built largely by unprofessional amateurs using math, sand, and the institutions of freedom. The Soviet Union had the greatest mathematicians on earth, and plenty of sand, but without the institutions of freedom their brilliant mathematicians were not empowered to create those devices that are changing the world.

  Michael Strong

  Freedom, Business, Math

  Michael Strong, John Mackey (2009). “Be the Solution: How Entrepreneurs and Conscious Capitalists Can Solve All the World?s Problems”, p.60, John Wiley and Sons

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• It is true that at the time [1962] we had a strategic nuclear force of approximately five thousand warheads compared to the Soviet's three hundred.

  Robert McNamara

  Time, Three, Nuclear

  Robert S. McNamara (1988). “The first century of the nuclear age: can we survive it”

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• We had a dog who was named Pushinka, who was given to my father by a Soviet official. And we trained that dog to slide down the slide we had in the back of the White House. Sliding the dog down that slide is probably my first memory.

  John F. Kennedy

  Dog, Memories, Father

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• The triumph of the analytical movement, which formed in the '30's and '40's, was precisely what earned the Soviet masters the acclaim of chessplayers the world over. Unfortunately, it must also be noted that, for today's chessmasters, the watchword is practicality.

  Mikhail Botvinnik

  Triumph, Analysis, Movement

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• After a great deal of discussion in Soviet literature about the correct definition of a combination, it was decided that from the point of view of a methodical approach it was best to settle on this definition - A combination is a forced variation with a sacrifice.

  Alexander Kotov

  Sacrifice, Views, Variation

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• To overcome of our enemies we must have our own socialist militarism. We must carry along with us 90 million out of the 100 million of Soviet Russia's population. As for the rest, we have nothing to say to them. They must be annihilated.

  Grigory Zinoviev

  Russia, Enemy, Overcoming

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• My goal was to show the history of the end of the Cold War through both sides - the U.S. side and the Soviet side. I really felt that especially the Soviet side of the story hadn't been well told because we didn't know.

  David E. Hoffman

  War, Goal, Stories

  "'Next to Normal' wins Pulitzer Prize for drama" by Michael Kuchwara, www.today.com. April 13, 2010.

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• The establishment of an American Soviet government will involve the confiscation of large landed estates in town and country, and also, the whole body of forests, mineral deposits, lakes, rivers and so on.

  William Z. Foster

  Country, Lakes, Government

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