Dubcek Quotes

#1. Who would have predicted ... that Dubcek, who brought the tanks in in Czechoslovakia in 1968 is now being proclaimed a hero in Czechoslovakia. Unbelievable.

Dan Quayle

#2. We shall have to remove everything that strangles artistic and scientific creativeness.

Alexander Dubcek

#3. Unfortunately, I have realized that we cannot completely erase all the evil from the world, but we can change the way we deal with it, we can rise above it and stay strong and true to ourselves.

Zlata Filipovic

#4. After Barbarossa and Pearl Harbor, the war tide slowly turned against the Axis.

Alexander Dubcek

#5. I can only say, think of me what you will, I have worked for thirty years in the Party, and my whole family has devoted everything to the affairs of the Party, the affairs of socialism.

Alexander Dubcek

#6. Many legitimate forms of ownership, mainly cooperative and communal, had not been used to any effective extent mainly because of the imposition of Stalinist restrictions.

Alexander Dubcek

#7. No plan ever survives its first encounter with the enemy.

Douglas MacArthur

#8. There's doubt in trying.
Just do it or stop thinking.

Toba Beta

#9. Yet as the evening of Sunday came on, a sadness as of death would overtake me, for at nine o'clock I had to return to school, where everything was cold and strange and severe - where the governesses, on Mondays, lost their tempers, and nipped my ears, and made me cry.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#10. For us she is not the iron lady. She is the kind, dear Mrs. Thatcher.

Alexander Dubcek

#11. That was Dad's life, and I was the birdshit on his windshield.

Richard Bachman

#12. Let whatever is going to happen to me happen. I'm expecting the worst for myself and I'm resigned to it.

Alexander Dubcek

#13. I responded that we needed a private sector to improve the market situation and make peoples lives easier.

Alexander Dubcek

#14. In the service of the people we followed such a policy that socialism would not lose its human face.

Alexander Dubcek

#15. In the first moments, the members of the Presidium who were with me at the Secretariat were taken to the Party Central Committee under the control of Soviet forces.

Alexander Dubcek

#16. In the economic sphere, the program demanded thorough decentralization and managerial independence of enterprises, as well as legalization of small-scale private enterprise, especially in the service sector.

Alexander Dubcek

#17. Spring and summer 1942 was probably the worst period of internal terror in Slovakia. It was also the time of mass deportation of Slovak Jews to the extermination camps in Poland.

Alexander Dubcek

#18. I just love it when I hear a little commotion, someone leaving. When I see those doors in the back ...

George Carlin

#19. Socialism with a human face.

Alexander Dubcek

#20. In the first day of the Soviet Army's arrival, I and the other comrades were isolated and then found ourselves here, not knowing anything ... I can only conjecture what could have happened.

Alexander Dubcek

#21. You can crush the flowers, but you can't stop the spring.

Alexander Dubcek

#22. I don't only long for the thrill of being in the middle of a war, I must understand it; I must make other people understand.

Amanda Lindhout