Dmitri Volkogonov famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

It is surely indisputable that no single leader in the twentieth century exerted as great an influence on the course of world history as Lenin.
-- Dmitri Volkogonov

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All revolutions are bloody. The October Revolution was bloodless, but it was only the beginning
-- Dmitri Volkogonov

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Dogmatism grew from the soil of simplistic and frequently wrong concepts. Dogmatism is like a ship that has run aground: the waves run, the ship stays put, but the impression of movement persists
-- Dmitri Volkogonov

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We rarely know who our ancestors were. Who can even remember the names of their great-grandparents? They have vanished into the dim and distant past
-- Dmitri Volkogonov

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The man who occupies the first place in an undemocratic state can give himself any award that takes his fancy, but it does not increase his authority - rather, the contrary. This was something Brezhnev and Chernenko did not understand. In all, Stalin had about as many decorations as, say, Mekhlis, and four or five times fewer than Brezhnev
-- Dmitri Volkogonov

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We brought the religious leaders and the secular development workers together in one room. We asked the religious leaders what are your reservations about development workers? And we asked the development workers, what are your reservations about religious leaders? It turns out that most of the problems are not really problems at all, but rather misunderstandings, misconceptions, and mis-communications.
How fortunate for leaders that men do not think (also, What luck for rulers that men do not think).
You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.
God help us if we ever take the theater out of the auction business or anything else. It would be an awfully boring world.
The Christian is not obedient unless he is doing all in his power to send the Gospel to the heathen world.
I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made.
I am not a pessimist but a pejorist (as George Eliot said she was not an optimist but a meliorist); and that philosophy is founded on my observation of the world, not on anything so trivial and irrelevant as personal history.
It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.
The authority of the Supreme Court must not be permitted to control the Congress or the Executive when acting in their legislative capacities, but to have only such influence as the force of their reasoning may deserve.
Influence is like a savings account, the less you use it, the more you've got

Dmitri Volkogonov famous quotes

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