Ceausescu's Quotes

#1. The saddest country I went to was Romania, years ago, during Ceausescu's rule.

Christopher Lee

#2. Always mind the distance between your dreams and your reality.

Zoe Heller

#3. Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West. The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.

Noam Chomsky

#4. Aren't you supposed to be Jesus' bitch?

Debra Anastasia

#5. The dash helps to indicate that the two thoughts are intimately related, and it's less stodgy than a semicolon, which would have performed the same function (and who talks in semicolons?).

Bill Walsh

#6. We want to ensure a multilateral development of society, the thriving of all sides of social life, economy, science and culture, the improvement of management, the moulding of the new man and the promotion of socialist ethics and equity.

Nicolae Ceausescu

#7. Oh stupid, silly, awkward me;
Will I never, ever see?
People babble, speak, and talk;
All I can do is stand and gawk!

Margo T. Rose

#8. The foetus is the property of the entire society.Anyone having children is a deserter who abandons the laws of national continuity.

Nicolae Ceausescu

#9. It's the sort of subject that always interests me: jealousy and the language of suspicion and guilt. I think it interests people.

Adrian Lyne

#10. After the fall of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, Romanians were crazed with happiness. People who never met each other before hugged each other in the streets - convinced that tomorrow things would look different. Then came the many disappointments.

Octavian Paler

#11. In Romania, of course, gymnastics is among the most popular sports, and my parents had a dream of escaping the Ceausescu regime and giving their child a better life. So they came to the United States and put me in gymnastics.

Dominique Moceanu

#12. It's the impeded stream that sings

Wendell Berry

#13. Ah, the bitter, hopeless heart-hunger of godlessness none but an atheist can understand!

Miles Franklin

#14. Dialectical materialism works like cocaine, let's say. If you sniff it once or twice, it may not change your life. If you use it day after day, though, it will make you into an addict, a different man.

Nicolae Ceausescu

#15. 'Seconds' is all about spaces, and I guess spaces are kind of like people in that they can be haunting and alluring before we even really get to know them, and after prolonged exposure, they can become mundane or oppressive.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

#16. Work diligently. Diligently. Work patiently and persistently. Patiently and persistently. And you're bound to be successful. Bound to be successful.

S. N. Goenka

#17. That every will must consider every other will its equal would be a principle hostile to life, an agent of the dissolution and destruction of man, an attempt to assassinate the future of man, a sign of weariness, a secret path to nothingness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#18. I have dogs, and it's no secret that I find reptiles interesting, but the thing about reptiles is that they really just wanna be left alone, and I understand them. It's, 'Don't pick me up, stop holding me, don't look at me, just leave me alone.' I have to admit, sometimes I feel like that.

Nicolas Cage

#19. Atheism and agnosticism signify the rejection of certain images and concepts of God or of truth, which are historically conditioned and therefore inadequate. Atheism is a challenge to religion to purifiy its images and concepts and come nearer to the truth of divine mystery.

Bede Griffiths

#20. My mother and I were part of a deal in the mid-'60s between Romania and Israel. Israel bought freedom for Romanian Jews for $2,000 a head. Ceausescu made a bundle in hard currency. He also 'sold' ethnic Germans to West Germany. Instead of going to Israel, my mother and I came to the United States.

Andrei Codrescu

#21. The fetus is the property of the entire society,

Nicolae Ceausescu

#22. Stealing from capitalism is not like stealing out of our own pockets. Marx and Lenin have taught us that anything is ethical, so long as it is in the interest of the proletarian class and its world revolution.

Nicolae Ceausescu

#23. We do not understand democracy in its bourgeois meaning
of babbling, lack of discipline, anarchy. We understand democracy as the active participation of the citizens in formulating and implementing the Party's policy.

Nicolae Ceausescu