Molotov Quotes

• Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down.

  Edward Abbey

  Gun, Hands, Molotov Cocktail

  Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert solitaire: a season in the wilderness”

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• What will happen once the authentic mass man takes over, we do not know yet, although it may be a fair guess that he will have more in common with the meticulous, calculated correctness of Himmler than with the hysterical fanaticism of Hitler, will more resemble the stubborn dullness of Molotov than the sensual vindictive cruelty of Stalin.

  Hannah Arendt

  Men, Sensual, Stubborn

  Hannah Arendt (1968). “Totalitarianism: Part Three of The Origins of Totalitarianism”, p.49, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• My dad never blew anything up, but he probably had friends who did. He and my mom have always preached that the pen is mightier than a Molotov cocktail.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Mom, Dad, Molotov Cocktail

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• While There may be power in forgiveness, there is even more power in lobbing a Molotov cocktail through someone's dining room window.

  Jim Norton

  Funny, Forgiveness, Humorous

  Jim Norton (2008). “I Hate Your Guts”, p.158, Simon and Schuster

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• I was a radical, a revolutionist. I am still a revolutionist…I am glad I was in the Stonewall riot. I remember when someone threw a Molotov cocktail, I thought, “My god, the revolution is here. The revolution is finally here!

  Sylvia Rivera

  Molotov Cocktail, Cocktails, Revolution

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• If your Soviet neighbor is trying to set fire to your house, you can't be worrying about the Arab down the block. If suddenly it's the Arab in your backyard , you can't be worrying about the People's Republic of China and if one day the ChiComs show up at your front door with an eviction notice in one hand and a Molotov cocktail in the other, then the last thing you're going do is look over his shoulder for a walking corpse.

  Max Brooks

  Block, Fire, Doors

  Max Brooks (2006). “World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War”, p.47, Broadway Books

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• Every rock or molotov cocktail thrown should make a very obvious political point. Random violence produces random propaganda results. Why waste even a rock?

  Abbie Hoffman

  Rocks, Random Violence, Molotov Cocktail

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• When I made my theoretical model, I could not have guessed that people would try to realise it with Molotov cocktails.

  Theodor Adorno

  Molotov Cocktail, People, Trying

  "The Dialectical Imagination: A History of the Frankfurt School and the Institute of Social Research, 1923-1950". Book by Martin Jay, p. 279, 1973.

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• I think there are a number of little Ribbentrops running around. But Molotov hasn't found a good enough deal yet.

  Toomas Hendrik Ilves

  Running, Thinking, Numbers

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• A rioter with a Molotov cocktail in his hands is not fighting for civil rights any more than a Klansman with a sheet on his back and mask on his face. They are both more or less what the law declares them: lawbreakers, destroyers of constitutional rights and liberties and ultimately destroyers of a free America.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Friends, Freedom, War

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.898, Best Books on

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• A grenade launcher will easily take out a tank; a Molotov cocktail placed in its air intake will destroy one as well.

  Sebastian Junger

  Air, Molotov Cocktail, Tanks

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• It was possible that I'd thrown one too many Molotov cocktails over God's fence.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Molotov Cocktail, Cocktails, Fence

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.879, Scholastic Inc.

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• Stalin's henchman Molotov, 96, died old and in bed, a privilege he helped to deny to millions.

  George Will

  Bed, Privilege, Deny

  George F. Will (1992). “Suddenly: The American Idea Abroad and at Home, 1986-1990”

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• The Daily Telegraph reported on April 9, 1937: 'Since M. Litvinoff ousted Chicherin, no Russian has ever held a high post in the Commissariat for Foreign Affairs.' It seems that the Daily Telegraph was unaware that Chicherin's mother was a Jewess. The Russian Molotov, who became Foreign Minister later, has a Jewish wife, and one of his two assistants is the Jew, Lozovsky. It was the last-named who renewed the treaty with Japan in 1942, by which the Kamchatka fisheries provided the Japanese with an essential part of their food supplies.

  Arnold Leese

  Mother, Japan, Two

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• I pity the young woman who will attempt to insinuate herself between my mama's boy and me. I sympathize with the monumental nature of her task. It will take a crowbar, two bulldozers and half a dozen Molotov cocktails to pry my Oedipus and me loose from one another.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Boys, Oedipus, Molotov Cocktail

  Ayelet Waldman (2009). “Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace”, p.88, Anchor

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• I rather liked Stalin and Molotov, got along fine with them.

  Joachim von Ribbentrop

  Fine

  "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately, 2004.

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• The truth then is, that the Russian Comintern is still confessedly engaged in endeavoring to foment war in order to facilitate revolution, and that one of its chief organizers, Lozovsky, has been installed as principal adviser to Molotov...A few months ago he wrote in the French publication, L Vie Ouvriere...that his chief aim in life is the overthrow of the existing order in the great Democracies.

  Denis Fahey

  War, Order, Democracy

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• In England especially, I've found that if you bring up King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson at a dinner party or a social gathering, it's like throwing a Molotov cocktail into the room.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Kings, Party, Molotov Cocktail

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• (I)t is simply wrong to confuse cowardice with appeasement. Cowardice is a failing of character. Appeasement is a failure of policy. Stalin appeased Hitler when he signed the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. Stalin was an evil character, to be sure. But cowardice really isn't the first word that comes to mind when thinking of Stalin ' that word is “sexy.” I'm kidding, I'm kidding.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Sexy, Character, Thinking

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• I cannot make myself believe that God wanted me to hate. I'm tired of violence, I've seen too much of it. I've seen such hate on the faces of too many sheriffs in the South. And I'm not going to let my oppressor dictate to me what method I must use. Our oppressors have used violence. Our oppressors have used hatred. Our oppressors have used rifles and guns. I'm not going to stoop down to their level. I want to rise to a higher level. We have a power that can't be found in Molotov cocktails.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Hate, Believe, Tired

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