Historical Quotes

Every age that has historical status is governed by aristocracies.Aristocracy with the meaning - the best are ruling.Peoples do never govern themselves. That lunacy was concocted by liberalism. Behind its people's sovereignty the slyest cheaters are hiding, who don't want to be recognized.

Divide the world into regional groups as a transitional stage to world government. Populations will more readily abandon their national loyalty to a vague regional loyalty than they will for a world authority. Later the regions can be brought together all the way into a single world dictatorship.

I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself

The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.

I think the importance of doing activist work is precisely because it allows you to give back and to consider yourself not as a single individual who may have achieved whatever but to be a part of an ongoing historical movement.

By the skillful and sustained use of propaganda, one can make a people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradise.

World dictatorship can be established only when the victory of socialism has been achieved in certain countries or groups of countries ... [and] when these federation of republics have finally grown into a world union of Soviet Socialist Republics uniting the whole of mankind under the hegemony of the international proletariat organized as a state.

Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.

The battle is fought and decided by the quartermasters, long before the shooting begins.

History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure.

Nobody respects a country with a poor army, but everybody respects a country with a good army. I raise my toast to the Finnish army

Before we can build a stable civilization worthy of humanity as a whole, it is necessary that each historical civilization should become conscious of its limitations and it's unworthiness to become the ideal civilization of the world.

The goal of socialism is communism.

I am responsible only to God and history.

Men do not shape destiny. Destiny produces the man for the hour.

As a historical legacy, the Kashmir conflict has been an outstanding issue for more than half a century.

I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.

The technotronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values. Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen. These files will be subject to instantaneous retrieval by the authorities.

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.

Dehumanization, although a concrete historical fact, is not a given destiny but the result of an unjust order that engenders violence in the oppressors, which in turn dehumanizes the oppressed

There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.

'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.

Democracy is the road to socialism.

All oppression creates a state of war.

Any movement in history which attempts to perpetuate itself, becomes reactionary.