#mm

It is here that we see the dawn of hope: for no matter how formidably Communism bristles with tanks and rockets, no matter what successes it attains in seizing the planet, it is doomed never to vanquish Christianity. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#communism #communism

Exchange, fair or unfair,always presupposes and includes the rule of the bourgeoisie. ↗

— Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

#commodity-production #communism #economics #communism

A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#nationalism #nationalism

North Korean defectors often find it hard to settle down. It is not easy for somebody who’s escaped a totalitarian country to live in the free world. Defectors have to rediscover who they are in a world that offers endless possibilities. Choosing where to live, what to do, even which clothes to put on in the morning is tough enough for those of us accustomed to making choices; it can be utterly paralyzing for people who’ve had decisions made for them by the state their entire lives. ↗

— Barbara Demick

#communism #communism

[T]hat old September feeling, left over from school days, of summer passing, vacation nearly done, obligations gathering, books and football in the air ... Another fall, another turned page: there was something of jubilee in that annual autumnal beginning, as if last year's mistakes had been wiped clean by summer. ↗

— Wallace Stegner

#back-to-school #fall #new-beginnings #summer #autumn

You have attained maturity; display it for us, if you please. ↗

— MaryJanice Davidson

#maturity

Of course,it had to be just a rebound thing. There was no way I was interested in this arrogant, obnoxious jerk. No matter how hot he might be. ↗

— Jenna Black

#glimmerglass #keane #arrogance

But the point is this Monsieur...the reason why Madame complains of you is not because of the immorality in itself; but because, so she tells me, you make immorality delicious. ↗

— Daphne du Maurier

#immorality #music #art

Au milieu de l'hiver, j'apprenais enfin qu'il y avait en moi un été invincible. ↗

— Albert Camus

#hardship #seasons #self #strength #summer

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense. ↗

— Frank Lloyd Wright

#common sense #more #nothing #sense #than