Gulags famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Guantanamo has become the gulag of our time.
-- Irene Khan

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The much greater crimes of the Soviet Gulags occurred over decades and cost millions of lives.
-- Jean-Marie Le Pen

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The way people are treated in them [prisons] is very similar to gulags.
-- Jerry Brown

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From the Soviet gulag to the Nazi concentration camps and the killing fields of Cambodia, history teaches that granting the state legal authority to kill innocent individuals has dreadful consequences.
-- Pete du Pont

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In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as the tie of their cravats, there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world a little.
Just as Freud couldnâ€™t always be blamed for the Freudians, Bresson didnâ€™t always feel obliged to behave like a Bressonian.
So many of the models of courage we've had, ones that are still taught to boys and girls, are about going out to slay the dragon, to kill. It's a courage that's born out of fear, anger, and hate. But there's this other kind of courage. It's the courage to risk your life, not in war, not in battle, not out of fear ... but out of love and a sense of injustice that has to be challenged. It takes far more courage to challenge unjust authority without violence than it takes to kill all the monsters in all the stories told to children about the meaning of bravery.
It's definitely hard for me watching myself on screen, it's very uncomfortable, but it's just like anything - the more you do it, the more you get used to it. When I first got out I was like, I can't look at all, it makes me sick to my stomach.
Chemistry is not anything an executive producer or writer can orchestrate or plan; you just hope for it.
Itâ€™s just that Iâ€™d rather die of drink than of thirst.
I think unfortunately in this gold rush mentality that we've been in for the last years there has been not enough focus on business model quality. So when push comes to shove, there actually aren't that many great businesses that can go public. Because I think if you're going to thrive as a public company, it presupposes that you make more money than you spend.
When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.
Thinking is an experimental dealing with small quantities of energy, just as a general moves miniature figures over a map before setting his troops in action.
Your words are containers for power, and by the words you speak you frame your world!