of Reason, was a time in
human history when man
began to use his reasons in
his exploration, leaving
behind the superstition
and fear of the medieval
world.
Famous Quotes Throughout Enlightenment History
Russia
Vladimir Lenin
One man with a gun can control 100 without one.
A lie told often enough becomes truth
It is true that liberty is precious - so precious that it must be rationed
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Joseph Stalin
Death solves all problems - no man, no problem.
Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach.
Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why
should we let them have ideas.
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Nikita Khrushchev
If you live among wolves you have to act like a wolf.
If you start throwing hedgehogs under me, I shall throw a couple of porcupines
under you.
Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you!
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Leonid Brezhnev
One sits the whole day at the desk and appetite is standing next to me. "Away
with you," I say. But Comrade Appetite does not budge from the spot.
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Mikhail Gorbachev
If not me, who? And if not now, when?
America must be the teacher of democracy, not the advertiser of the consumer
society. It is unrealistic for the rest of the world to reach the American living
standard.
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Boris Yeltsin
Let's not talk about Communism. Communism was just and idea, just pie in the
sky.
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.
It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is
critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than
gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.
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Vladimir Putin
I am addressing you because you have conferred on me the highest post in the
country.
I think the American people should express their preferences, and we'll accept their
choice.
My sacred duty is to bring together the Russian people, unite the people around
clear tasks. We have one Fatherland, one people and a common future.
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seventeenth and eighteenth
centuries meant an
exploration of intellectual
values to most of Europe.
Russia tried hard to keep
up with these new
sensibilities but
unfortunately managed to
pick up only the expensive
furniture and the habit of
throwing orgies while
leaving the finer
philosophical points of this
"best of all possible
worlds" way back in
Versailles.
