Artillery is the god of war.
In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.
This war is not as in the past: whoever occupies a territory also imposes his own social system.
The Jews are not a nation!
It doesn’t matter who they vote for, they always vote for us…
The Pope! How many divisions has he got?
Ah, these diplomats! What chatterboxes! There’s only one way to shut them up – cut them down with machine guns. Bulganin, go and get me one!
To escape the impact of a well-functioning system of propaganda that bars dissent and unwanted fact while fostering lively debate within the permitted bounds is remarkably difficult.
I understand that it’s hard for everyone, but one cannot give in to emotions… we’ll have to draw lessons from the current crisis and now we’ll have to work on overcoming it.
Secretary Powell and I agree on every single issue that has ever been before this administration except for those instances where Colin’s still learning.
Colorless green ideas sleep furiously
Naturally, any conqueror is going to play one group against another. For example, I think about 90% of the forces that the British used to control India were Indians.
While maintaining our nuclear potential at the proper level, we need to devote more attention to developing the entire range of means of information warfare.
Without Revolutionary theory, there can be no Revolutionary Movement.
And [Saudi Arabia] is strongly backed by the United States and its allies, Britain and France. Reason? It’s got a lot of oil. It’s got a lot of money. You can sell them a lot of arms, I think tens of billions of dollars of arms.
KGB, collapsed. Of course it was incredibly difficult to go through this. After all, most of my life had been devoted to work in the agencies. But I had made my choice.
Like, say I can choose to buy a Toyota or a Chevrolet, but I can’t choose in a market system to get a subway system, that is a collective action. Market systems don’t allow that. So it has an enormous distorting effect on the choices that are available.
Voters decide nothing. Vote counters decide everything!
Political leaders still think things can be done through force, but that cannot solve terrorism. Backwardness is the breeding ground of terror, and that is what we have to fight.
It is necessary sometimes to take one step backward to take two steps forward.
If we take all this actions and if it turns out not be true, we have reduced pollution and have better ways to live, the downside is very small. The other way around, and we dont act, and it turns out to be true, then we have betrayed future generations and we dont have the right to do that.
When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
