Nicolae Ceausescu Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. "Just to have my kids be in the sun every day-picking avocados, going for a swim," she says. "Even for two years or something, and come back when they go to senior school." Just what kids want to do, pick avocados. Also: senior school?

Gwyneth Paltrow

#5. My son is a better dancer than me. I always try to encourage him in his endeavours.

Mithun Chakraborty

#6. There. Maybe if you're lucky, you'll get a scar! That's what you want, isn't it?

J.K. Rowling

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

Nicolae Ceausescu

#8. Look at me and tell me if I don't have Brazil in every curve of my body.

Carmen Miranda

#9. 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

#10. It is through the tongue, the pen, and the press that truth is principally propagated.

Angelina Grimke

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

Nicolae Ceausescu

#12. My life was on the line here and my career and everything I worked for, it was hanging by a thread.

Rafael Palmeiro

#13. 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

#14. If you would get a contented life, do not grasp too much of the world, do not take in more of the business of the world than God calls you to.

Jeremiah Burroughs

#15. The rider and the team need to understand one another and work in the same direction. Then the rider's happy, and only then will the rider be able to give 100%.

Sete Gibernau

#16. It baffled me how people could resist math's gorgeousness, but people did, and people do. The fine of its purity drives them away, the purity of the fine, unmixed with the heaviness of unnecessitated being.

Rebecca Goldstein