Quotes About Stalin's Purges

#1. Joseph McCarthy, the Junior Republican Senator from Wisconsin, ruled America like devil king for four years. His purges were an American mirror image of Stalin's purges, an unnoticed similarity.

Martha Gellhorn

#2. Information doesn't deserve to be free. It is an abstract tool; a useful
fantasy, a nothing. It is nonexistent until and unless a person experiences
it in a useful way.

Jaron Lanier

#3. It could be seen as narcissistic to have your own museum, but for me, it's such a long time ago - I have perspective. That young man in the funny clothes - he's almost a stranger, so I can tell his story.

Bjorn Ulvaeus

#4. The mass of mankind is divided into two classes, the Sancho Panzas who have a sense for reality, but no ideals, and the Don Quixotes with a sense for ideals, but mad.

George Santayana

#5. Love, she learned, could reduce its recipient to an essential thing, as important as food or shelter, whose presence is not only longed for but needed.

Anthony Marra

#6. A man so far out of his league he suffered from altitude sickness.

Marisha Pessl

#7. We got to know each other on an intimate yet chaste level.

Kody Brown

#8. One would think that people who insist on being monotheistic would be the first in line to walk across the artificial boundaries created by nation states, class systems, cultures and even religions. But often they are the last!

Richard Rohr

#9. When we think about the kind of person we want others to remember us for being, it's much easier to work backward from our deaths

Craig Groeschel

#10. Divine Nature gave the fields, human art built the cities.

Marcus Terentius Varro

#11. I used to think the only way to be truly alive is to confront your mortality.

Nikki Sixx

#12. During the modern period, the vanguard architect has usually relied on small residential jobs both to supply a steady income and to serve as 'sketches' for ideas that are often later translated to the larger scale of public commissions.

Martin Filler

#13. Well, I tell myself, it could be worse. You could have been rescued by some fifty-year-old perv sporting a spare tire the size of a monster truck's who keeps his dead mother in the attic.

Rick Yancey