Bolsheviks Quotes - Page 2

• In [Ronald] Reagan's view, the American Founders had anchored their experiment in Judeo-Christian beliefs; the Bolsheviks deliberately established an antithetical model. Those founders of communism divorced their "faith" from God.

  Paul Kengor

  Christian, Views, Belief

  Source: www.visionandvalues.org

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• I believe that the formation of the Chekas was one of the gravest and most impermissible errors that the Bolshevik leaders committed in 1918 when plots, blockades, and interventions made them lose their heads. All evidence indicates that revolutionary tribunals, functioning in the light of day and admitting the right of defence, would have attained the same efficiency with far less abuse and depravity. Was it necessary to revert to the procedures of the Inquisition?

  Victor Serge

  Believe, Errors, Light

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• The West doesn't have to love us. In fact, we should ask ourselves more often why people are so suspicious of us. After all, the West isn't a charity organization. How have we been perceived for centuries? As a huge, warlike realm ruled by despots - first by the czars and then Bolsheviks. Why should anyone have loved us? If we want to be accepted, we have to do something in return. And it's an art that we have yet to master.

  Vladislav Surkov

  Art, Organization, People

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• We saw what happens with Bolsheviks. It was another catastrophe. I don't have the solution. The moviemaker can ask questions but not give solutions.

  Costa-Gavras

  Giving, Saws, Catastrophe

  Source: progressive.org

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• Take a very striking case in point: the Russian Bolsheviks. [Vladimir] Lenin created an alleged workers' party, which in every way reflected the Czarist machine, in order to deal with Czarism. And the danger and the hazards of trying to accommodate libertarian principles to the political process as we know it today is that one begins to dissolve the libertarian principles. So I would say that there is an inconsistency there that should be explored.

  Murray Bookchin

  Party, Order, Political

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• One might as well legalise sodomy as recognise the Bolsheviks.

  Winston Churchill

  Might, Wells, Recognise

  Winston Churchill's remarks in Paris (January 24, 1919), as quoted in in Martin Gilbert "Churchill: A Life" (p. 408), October 15, 1992.

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• There is not one single social or economic principle or concept in the philosophy of the Russian Bolshevik which has not been realized, carried into action, and enshrined in immutable laws a million years ago by the white ant.

  Winston Churchill

  Philosophy, Years, Law

  Sir Winston Churchill, Andrew Scotland (1965). “Churchill on men and events: a selection from "Thoughts and adventures" and "Great contemporaries"”

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• What kind of crops do they raise in the towns? Only Grand Dukes, Bolsheviks and drunkards!

  Ernest Poole

  Towns, Dukes, Kind

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• Yes, what we are doing is probably mad, and probably it is good and necessary all the same. It is not a good thing when man overstrains his reason and tries to reduce to rational order matters that are susceptible of rational treatment. Then there arise ideals such as those of the Americans or of the Bolsheviks. Both are extraordinarily rational, and both lead to a frightful oppression and impoverishment of life, because they simplify it so crudely. The likeness of man, once a high ideal, is in process of becoming a machine-made article. It is for madmen like us, perhaps, to ennoble it again.

  Hermann Hesse

  Men, Order, Mad

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• The argument, now, is about whether Bolshevik Russia was 'better' than Nazi Germany. In the days when the New Left dawned, the argument was about whether Bolshevik Russia was better than America.

  Martin Amis

  War, Russia, America

  Martin Amis (2014). “Koba the Dread: Laughter and the Twenty Million”, p.26, Vintage

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• Wrangel pretended to combat the Bolsheviks, Bolshevism is Jewry. In order to retain the favor of the Jews holding the real power in England, France and the United States, Wrangel showed to the Jews signs of his submission to them. Thereafter the Russian masses abandoned Wrangel as a traitor or as a comedian. It is impossible simultaneously to be an auxiliary of the Jew and an enemy of the Bolsheviki who are Jews. Be it incoherence or treason, Wrangel deserved the same fate as Denikin and he got it.

  Boris Brasol

  Real, Fate, Order

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• Anton Pannekoek didn't encourage radical workers and other activists of the anti-Bolshevik left to see revolutionary potential in his work in astronomy, for the simple reason that he was honest, and knew there was none to speak of.

  Noam Chomsky

  Simple, Honest, Speak

  Source: libcom.org

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• If Britain wins wholly, Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and perhaps even Bolshevik Russia will disappear.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Winning, Russia, Germany

  Source: gandhiking.ning.com

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• Honest to God, so International Women's Day, just like May Day and just like Earth Day, all have roots to Marxism and the Bolsheviks and the Soviets.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Roots, Earth Day, May

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I was a Stalinist in the '30s. I had come from a Russian revolutionary family who simply were elated by the fact that the Czar was overthrown by this group known as the Bolsheviks. My family identified with anybody who overthrew the Czar. So they identified themselves intuitively with Bolshevism.

  Murray Bookchin

  Groups, Facts, Revolutionary

  Interview with Jeff Riggenbach, reason.com. October 1979.

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• In the appendix to my History of the Russian Revolution I give a detailed and documented study of the ideas of the Bolshevik party on the October revolution. This study, I hope, will make it impossible in the future to ascribe to [Vladimir] Lenin the theory of Socialism in a single country.

  Leon Trotsky

  Country, Party, Ideas

  Source: www.marxists.org

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• In 1917 there was not a single Bolshevik who considered possible the realization of a socialist society in a single country, and least of all in Russia.

  Leon Trotsky

  Country, Russia, Realization

  Source: www.marxists.org

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• Sincerity is all that counts. It's a widespread modern heresy. Think again. Bolsheviks are sincere. Fascists are sincere. Lunatics are sincere. People who believe the earth is flat are sincere. They can't all be right. Better make certain that you've got something to be sincere about and with.

  Tom Driberg

  Believe, Thinking, People

  Tom Driberg (1949). “Colonnade: 1937-1947”, London, Pilot Press [1949]

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• The language of these Soviet show trials... could only be understood in the Aesopian imagery of the closed Bolshevik universe of conspiracies of evil against good in which 'terrorism' simply signified 'any doubt about the policies or character of Stalin.' All his political opponents were per se assassins. More than two 'terrorists' was a 'conspiracy'.

  Simon Sebag-Montefiore

  Character, Two, Evil

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• The war against Russia is an important chapter in the German nation's struggle for existence. [...] The objective of this battle must be the demolition of present-day Russia and must therefore be conducted with unprecedented severity. Every military action must be guided in planning and execution by an iron resolution to exterminate the enemy remorselessly and totally. In particular, no adherents of the contemporary Russian Bolshevik system are to be spared.

  Franz Halder

  Military, War, Struggle

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• The State, every government whatever its form, character or color - be it absolute or constitutional, monarchy or republic, Fascist, Nazi or bolshevik - is by its very nature conservative, static, intolerant of change and opposed to it.

  Emma Goldman

  Character, Government, Color

  Emma Goldman (1998). “Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader”

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• From the crown of my head to the soles of my feet I am Bolshevik, and proud of it.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Feet, Crowns, Proud

  "The Day of the People" by Eugene V. Debs in "The Class Struggle", Volume III, No. 1 (February 1919); later quoted in "International Socialist Review", Volume 29, No. 2 (pp. 55-57), www.marxists.org. March/April 1968.

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• So we get a plan," I said. "Any suggestions?" "Blow up the building," Kincaid said without looking up. "That works good for vampires. Then soak what's left in gasoline. Set it on fire. Then blow it all up again." "For future reference, I was sort of hoping for a suggestion that didn't sound like it came from that Bolshevik Muppet with all the dynamite.

  Jim Butcher

  Blow, Fire, Vampire

  Jim Butcher (2004). “Blood Rites: Book six of The Dresden Files”, p.203, Penguin

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