Despite everything they say, they are not popular. And the longer they stay in government, the better people will get to know their wickedness.
In 1872 the anarchist leader Mikhail Bakunin warned Karl Marx that Communists in power would be as oppressive as the aristocracy they replaced. After what has happened in Russia, can you honestly say Bakunin was wrong?
He put on his coat and hat. Then he returned to the kitchen. He kissed his mother and embraced his father. “What’s this for?” said his father. “You’re only going to work.” “It’s just in case we never meet again,” Volodya said. Then he went out.
There’s no rule that says public opinion has to be consistent.” Gus found his boss’s calm admirable, but a bit frustrating. “How the heck do you deal with that?” Wilson smiled, showing his bad teeth. “Gus, did someone tell you politics was easy?
They were taught about democracy in London, not about tyranny in Cairo.
They learned that Catholics burned Protestants at the stake, and it came as a shock if they ever found out that Protestants did the same to Catholics whenever they got the chance.
I remember seeing a Nazi poster,” she went on. It was this memory that had triggered her dreadful thought. “There was a picture of a male nurse and a mentally handicapped man. The text said something like: ‘Sixty thousand reichsmarks is what this person suffering from hereditary defects costs the people’s community during his lifetime. Comrade, that is your money too!’ It was an advertisement for a magazine, I think.
She grinned at her husband. He was wearing a blue towelling bathrobe that was too small for him, and it showed his long, muscular legs. ‘You’re not so bad yourself,’ she said, and she picked up the phone. It was her mother. ‘Happy Christmas,’ she said.
Her well-being was more important to me than my own. I have learned, during the course of a long life, that that is the meaning of love.
Even if you were taken out of school for want of money, Hugh. It’s no excuse for false values. The world is full of poor people who understand that love and friendship are more important than riches – Maisie Greenbourne.
One is a comfortable partnership, where two people share the same hopes and fears, raise children as a team, and give each other comfort and help.
Sometimes Winston imagined he had devised a policy when all he had done was coin a phrase.
America is free because it has disrespectful newspapers and television shows to expose and shame presidents.
There will always be crashes. They are necessary to remind good and bad investors that risk is real.
I learned the meaning of the word bittersweet, the acid taste of loss and the honey of hope in one bright fruit.
When Philip relived that day in his nightmares, and woke up sweating and screaming in the dark, he would always be able to calm himself, and eventually relax into sleep again, by bringing to mind that final tableau, and the way the screaming and the wounds had been swept aside by the unarmed man with the cross.
It means telling the truth, keeping promises, and taking responsibility for your mistakes. It’s the same in business as it is in everyday life. It’s a matter of being what you claim to be, doing what you say you’ll do.
A mistake is a mistake. Another mistake is normal. Only the same mistake twice makes you a fool.
Brave words came easily in the dark. Daylight might tell a different story.
She now welcomed him to her bedroom, dressed in pretty nightwear, offering him her scented body as she had when they were first married. In the end she was a well-brought-up aristocratic woman and she knew what a wife was for.