"It is often said that ‘the germ of all Stalinism was in Bolshevism at its beginning’. Well, I have no objection. Only, Bolshevism also contained many other germs – a mass of other germs – and those who lived through the enthusiasm of the first years of the first victorious socialist revolution ought not to forget it. To judge the living man by the death germs which the autopsy reveals in the corpse – and which he may have carried in him since his birth – is that very sensible?"

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Source : "Memoirs of a Revolutionary".

Victor Serge

#Men Quotes #Years Quotes #Judging Quotes

“Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion.”
“Okay, I guess you can come in." "Um, Hannah, you have to, you know, open the front door so I can actually come in." "I thought you were going to - you're standing under my window. Aren't you supposed to climb up here or something?" "My ladder's at home. Also, you call throwing rocks at your window clichÃ©d?”

Source : Elizabeth Scott (2009). “Something, Maybe”, p.194, Simon and Schuster
“Emotion without reason lets people walk all over you; reason without emotion is a mask for cruelty.”
“Deceit and lying make me feel vulnerable.”
“This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.”

Source : Theodore Roosevelt, Paul H. Jeffers (1998). “The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations”, p.63, Taylor Trade Publications
“It seemed to me that the real philosophical breakthroughs of the 20th century were in terms of the understanding of language. What is language? Where does it come from, how does it work, what does it do?”
“Rents once sais, thirs nothin like a darker skin tone tae increase the vigilance ay the police n the magistrates: too right.”
“Each bird must sing with his own throat.”

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