Adolf Ivar Arwidsson famous quotes

Swedes, we are not - Russians, we do not want to become ... so let us be Finnish.
-- Adolf Ivar Arwidsson

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Every time some new huckster of angst-ridden metaphor is appointed by Art Forum, the congregation genuflects, stroking the catalog like a handful of Rosary beads, and starts spreading that old gospel according to Hyperbole. No questions asked... And thus the bill of goods is sold, all along the line. An art historical snake, swallowing its own tale.

The greater the lie, the greater the chance that it will be believed.

I invented the historical spy novel.

A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.

The degeneration of the revolution in Russia does not pass from the revolution for communism to the revolution for a developed kind of capitalism, but to a pure capitalist revo­lution. It runs in parallel with world-wide capitalist domination which, by successive steps, eliminates old feudal and Asiatic forms in various zones. While the historical situation in the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries caused the capitalist revolution to take liberal forms, in the twentieth century it must have totalitarian and bureaucratic ones.

I want the love that cannot help but love; Loving, like God, for very sake of love.

We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.

OK, the rule is, you can [make love to] an elephant if you want to, but if you do you can't cover the circus.

One can't have it both ways and both ways is the only way I want it.

Today I am in control because I want to be. I have my fingers on the switch, but have lived a lifetime ignoring the control I have over my own world. Today is different.