"In modern Russia, you have no official, formal assessment of this past. Nobody in any Russian document has said that the policy of the Soviet government was criminal, that it was terrible. No one has ever said this."

-- Ryszard Kapuscinski

#Past Quotes #Government Quotes #Assessment Quotes

“Long live Iraq! Long live the Iraqi people! Down with the traitors!”
“The creation and destruction of harmonic and 'statistical' tensions is essential to the maintenance of compositional drama. Any composition (or improvisation) which remains consonant and 'regular' throughout is, for me, equivalent to watching a movie with only 'good guys' in it, or eating cottage cheese.”
“We do not measure a culture by its output of undisguised trivialities but by what it claims as significant.”
“When I stand before the throne of God, I shall be judged Innocent”

Source : Statement at His Trial,
“A good leader has a plan that consists of changing simple pictures. Just because a group of people has a bunch of boards, hammers, and nails does not mean that they are building a house or even anything recognizable. Sometimes leaders think they are doing their job just because there is a lot of hammering going on. As a society we like the sound of hammering, but we are uncomfortable with the sound of thinking, which is silence.”

Source : Laurie Beth Jones (1995). “Jesus, CEO: using ancient wisdom for visionary leadership”, Hyperion Books
“When I went to the moon I was a pragmatic test pilot. But when I saw the planet Earth floating in the vastness of space the presence of divinity became almost palpable and I knew that life in the universe was not just an accident.”
“And what can still delight an inert stone except to become, once more, the bed of a raging torrent?”
“Everything that the Sam Simon Foundation does is supposed to help dogs and people-that's our mission.”

Source : "Terminally Ill 'Simpsons' Co-Creator Vows to Give Away Fortune". Interview with Gary Baum, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 25, 2013.

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