Quotes About Czars

#1. The Russian empire under czars and commissars has been hard to deal with for other countries.

Henry A. Kissinger

#2. Soviet foreign policy turns out to be as "imperialist" as that of the czars. The Kremlin has betrayed the revolution.

William L. Shirer

#3. Al Gore is an heir to the old czars and commissars. He never saw a regulation he didn't like.

Sam Wyly

#4. As I was growing up, you know, I'm a white Jewish American born to Holocaust parents. My father fled Nazi Germany in 1939 and my mother's family had fled the czars of Russia before that.

Eugene Jarecki

#5. Such is the blessing of this republic. We are not confronted by one czar of the size of an elephant, but by a hundred thousand czars, as small as mosquitoes, but equally disagreeable and annoying.

Various

#6. When Nikita Khrushchev wrapped himself in the bloody mantle of the Czars he broke Hungary, he broke the little Communist parties over the western world, and he broke the hearts of many honest men who had trusted a little too far, a little too long.

James Cameron

#7. I got a cable from New York saying that what I'd written about the growth of Soviet agricultural production didn't make sense because the same levels were reached under the czars. I wanted to confirm it, but by then the censors were on to me.

Harrison Salisbury

#8. Kaisers and Czars will strut the stage Once more with pomp and greed and rage; Courtly ministers will stop At home and fight to the last drop; By the million men will die In some new horrible agony ...

Robert Graves

#9. The horrific struggle to establish a human self results in a self whose humanity is inseparable from that horrific struggle: That our endless and impossible journey toward home is in fact our home.
- David Foster Wallace, "Some Remarks on Kafka's Funniness" (2005)

David Foster Wallace

#10. Act with though awareness and love in the present moment then you will never need to worry about the thought of regret.

Matthew Donnelly

#11. Our technology has already outstripped our ability to control it.

Omar N. Bradley

#12. Always leave a sinking ship. There's no virtue in hanging on to losers. And stocks don't have feelings.

Nancy Dunnan

#13. Lightning never strikes twice in the same place
it doesn't have to.

Harry Hershfield

#14. You can't allow the false ideas of defeat to discourage you. Every day you should feel encouraged to do your best, encouraged to be your best, and encouraged to work towards your best.

Courtney Brooks