Alexander Zinoviev Quotes

#1. Were we as we should be,
We wouldn't need any illusions ...

Fernando Pessoa

#2. That's how you make me feel; like I'm free-falling, but still flying in the wind.

Felice Stevens

#3. Gorbachevism, carried out by mediocre but ambitious party bureaucrats, is an attempt not only to outdo the people but also the objective laws of human society.

Alexander Zinoviev

#4. The only permission, the only validation, and the only opinion that matters in our quest for greatness is our own.

Steve Maraboli

#5. If I stop writing I am dead. And that's the only way I'll stop: dead.

Charles Bukowski

#6. The love, loyalty, and dedication of Mary and Joseph are an example for all Christian couples, who are neither the friends nor masters of their children's lives, but the guardians of this incomparable gift from God.

Pope Benedict XVI

#7. I consider him [i.e Stalin] one of the greatest persons in the history of mankind. In the history of Russia he was, in my opinion, even greater than Lenin. Until Stalin's death I was anti-Stalinist, but I always regarded him as a brilliant personality.

Alexander Zinoviev

#8. The scientific approach uncovers, that Communism does not eliminate the inequality between men, the social injustice, exploitation of man by man and other evils of society - communism merely changes their form and gives birth to new evils, which become eternal fellow-travelers of communism.

Alexander Zinoviev

#9. How different a loved and familiar spot appears, when viewed with the eye of probable guests.

Anne Bosworth Greene

#10. Perestroika is nothing but a spectacle organized from above.

Alexander Zinoviev