"The clash between the aspirations of the people for a better life and the insistence of their rulers on building a powerful state, regardless of human sacrifice, runs through the whole of Russian history"

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Source : Harrison Evans Salisbury (1965). “Russia”, Scribner

Harrison Salisbury

#Running Quotes #Powerful Quotes #Sacrifice Quotes

“We carry the dead with us only until we die too, and then it is we who are borne along for a little while, and then our bearers in their turn drop, and so on into the unimaginable generations.”

Source : FaceBook post by John Banville from Dec 16, 2012
“Our government treats the LGBT community like second-class citizens.”

Source : "To-Do List: Fort Hood Hearing Resumed, Peace Talks Renewed, AOL Revamped" by Samantha Henig, www.newyorker.com. November 15, 2010.
“But the nature of the universe is such that the ends never justify the means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.”
“The rain's been racing earthwards as if with some religious or political fanaticism. The clouds have the look of dark internal bleeding. Surely you lot look up from Cosmo while this sort of thing's going on? Surely you take a Playstation break?”
“The idea of a journeyman actor, people sort of say negatively - "Someone who never made it for real" - [but] I think a journeyman actor is the complete goal.”
“Grace and mercy are never deserved.”
“And what are you doing here, Nicholas? Decided to watch me sleep?" "Yes," said Nick, and bowed is head over his sword again. He had tissues, oil, and sandpaper laid out on the windowsill in front of him, and a little stone block he was passing his sword up and down, very carefully. "I came to gaze upon your sleeping face. Only you had the blanket over your head, so I just had to gaze at a lump I thought was your sleeping face, and that turned out to be your shoulder. Which just wasn't as special." ~Nick and Mae”
“The next General Election isn't about electing yet another Labour or Tory MP to join the hundreds of other Labour or Tory MPs in London. It will be about electing a candidate who will put solving people's problems before scoring political points. Someone who will fight for the future of our communities here in Clwyd West.”

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