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All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do. Leo Tolstoy
Death Suffering People Some People Forcing Others Consists Threat Some Want Violence
Everyone has the right to be stupid on occasion, but Comrade Macdonald abuses the privilege. Leon Trotsky
Stupid Everyone Macdonald Comrade Abuse Occasion Privilege Right
You may not be interested in strategy, but strategy is interested in you. Leon Trotsky
You Strategy May Interested
Without my dad, I wouldn't be here. Maria Sharapova
Father's Day Without Dad Here
The most beautiful words in the English language are 'not guilty'. Maxim Gorky
Beautiful Words Most Beautiful Language Guilty Most Beautiful Words Not Guilty English English Language
When one loves somebody everything is clear - where to go, what to do - it all takes care of itself and one doesn't have to ask anybody about anything. Maxim Gorky
Care Somebody Everything About Clear Takes Go Itself Anybody Where Anything Loves Ask
By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. Those who have cautiously done no more than they believed possible have never taken a single step forward. Mikhail Bakunin
Man Impossible Single Those Striving Possible More Never Step Taken Step Forward Always Than Done Achieved Who Forward Believed
The passion for destruction is also a creative passion. Mikhail Bakunin
Creative Destruction Passion Also
People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy. Mikhail Bakunin
Happy People Church Free Few Minutes Misery Go Forget Same Tavern Anyway Themselves Reasons Imagine
Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man. Nikita Khrushchev
Nature Man States Rulers Rather Gives Support Hanged Rope United United States
Economics is a subject that does not greatly respect one's wishes. Nikita Khrushchev
Respect Economics Wishes Does Subject Greatly
You can't imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays. Nikolai Gogol
You World Stupid Nowadays How Whole Grown Imagine
The working classes in every country only learn to fight in the course of their struggles. Rosa Luxemburg
Fight Country Every Classes Only Struggles Learn Course Working Working Classes
Though foreign loans are indispensable for the emancipation of the rising capitalist states, they are yet the surest ties by which the old capitalist states maintain their influence, exercise financial control, and exert pressure on the customs, foreign and commercial policy of the young capitalist states. Rosa Luxemburg
Financial Old Pressure Control Young States Emancipation Though Rising Indispensable Maintain Policy Ties Exercise Exert Surest Foreign Commercial Influence Which Customs Capitalist Loans
A bachelor is a man who comes to work each morning from a different direction. Sholom Aleichem
Work Morning Man Bachelor Direction Different Who Each Each Morning
Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps. Vladimir Lenin
Man Own Bootstraps More Lifting Himself Self-Sacrifice His Up Than Capable Capitalists
Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle. The modern industrial proletariat does not belong to the category of such classes. Vladimir Lenin
Struggle Evil Despair Typical Way Proletariat Those Out See Classes Category Industrial Understand Does Causes Modern Incapable Who Belong
My notion of the KGB came from romantic spy stories. I was a pure and utterly successful product of Soviet patriotic education. Vladimir Putin
Education Pure Came Spy Soviet Romantic Patriotic Stories Successful Product Notion Utterly
Nobody and nothing will stop Russia on the road to strengthening democracy and ensuring human rights and freedoms. Vladimir Putin
Democracy Rights Will Nothing Human Rights Ensuring Russia Road Nobody Freedoms Human Stop Strengthening
Nobody should pin their hopes on a miracle. Vladimir Putin
Hopes Miracle Nobody Pin Should
The centuries-old history and culture of India, majestic architectural monuments and museums of Delhi, Agra and Mumbai have a unique attractive force. Vladimir Putin
History Culture Monuments India Architectural Delhi Majestic Attractive Force Unique Mumbai Museums
We don't need a weakened government but a strong government that would take responsibility for the rights of the individual and care for the society as a whole. Vladimir Putin
Government Rights Strong Care Responsibility Society Weakened Would Individual Take Whole Need
For Russia, there is not and there may not be another political option but democracy. However, Russian democracy is... not at all the realization of standards imposed on us from outside. Vladimir Putin
Democracy Political Russia Russian Outside Another However Imposed Option May Realization Us Standards
Thieves must sit in prison. Vladimir Putin
Prison Sit Thieves Must
Millions around the world increasingly see America not as a model of democracy but as relying solely on brute force, cobbling coalitions together under the slogan, 'You're either with us or against us.' Vladimir Putin
Democracy You Together World Increasingly Solely Slogan See Relying Brute Brute Force Force Around Model America Either Against Us Coalition Millions
If the nation is not capable of preserving itself and reproducing, if it loses it vital bearings and ideals, then it doesn't need foreign enemies - it will fall apart on its own. Vladimir Putin
Enemies Will Fall Nation Own Preserving Vital Bearing Ideals Foreign Loses Itself Reproducing Apart Capable Then Need
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