Sarah Weinman Quotes

Stalin is a strong, ruthless revolutionist and therefore a very potential threat to future world conditions.

The statues of Lenin and Stalin are down, but the fight against their ghosts seems harder.

What is the secret of Stalin's unquestioned strength? He controls every wheel and screw of the party machine, which is the source of authority and power in the Soviet Union.

In the Soviet Union, you always have the feeling someone is watching you.

I love 'The Master And Margarita' by Mikhail Bulgakov, which is about repression in Soviet Russia in the 1930s.

Were we ever to find ourselves living under a totalitarian regime, place no faith in the mercy of your fellow citizens.

I ALWAYS LIKED MR STALIN.

The Cuban people still live in constant fear of a brutal totalitarian regime that has demonstrated time and again its utter disregard for basic human dignity. The fight for a free Cuba has gone on for far too long.

I was not extremely patriotic about Mother Russia. I played their game, pretending. You have to deal with, you know, party people, KGB. Horrifying.

In the Soviet Union it was illegal to take a photograph of a train station. Look what happened to them. They tried to classify everything.

I'd never been in a police state. I didn't know what it was. I knew that it was, in the general way that people know that two and two is four, but it had no emotional value for me until I found myself in the middle of it.

Literature has its own life, even in a dictatorship like the Soviet Union.

The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.

I grew up in the shadow of the Trujillato, saw how the regime had ravaged so many families.

When you repeat, in that wooden and perfunctory way, that our situation is better than others, that we're 'well-placed to weather the storm', I have to tell you that you sound like a Brezhnev-era apparatchik giving the party line.

I think one of the very frightening things about the regime of the National Socialists is that it made people happy.

Psychology and economics are Stalin's favorable winds. He is also the party 'boss.' But he is, in addition, the Soviet Union's most striking personality.

Nowadays, we seldom remember that the totalitarianism that emerged early this century was thought to embody, above all, modernity and technology.

Political or religious dissenters are the plague of every totalitarian regime.

Stalin's methods did not help.

Against the loneliness and rootlessness of man in a free society, totalitarianism promises the comradeship of crusading unity.

Kindness towards strangers is rare in North Korea. There is a risk to helping others. The state made accusers and informers of us all.

When totalitarian regimes are established, they at least have the illusion of the single-minded purpose. But once they establish the stature that's necessary for a totalitarian regime, they tend to flail.

I don't know if I want to live in a country where lone wolf and random terror attacks are impossible 'cause that country would look more like North Korea than America.

During the entire communist era, communist ideology was imposed on children. That was Bolshevism.