Quotes About The Cheka

#1. The Gulag Archipelago, 'he informed an incredulous world that the blood-maddened Jewish terrorists had murdered sixty-six million victims in Russia from 1918 to 1957! Solzhenitsyn cited Cheka Order No. 10, issued on January 8, 1921: 'To intensify the repression of the bourgeoisie.'

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#2. You can lose yourself in pleasure, 'til your body's going numb, but will it ever be enough.

Meat Loaf

#3. Tej seemed such a sunny personality, much of the time
these flashes of dark were like a crack in the sky, shocking and wrong. Reminding him that the daylight was the illusion, the scattering of light by the atmosphere, and the endless night was the permanent default behind it all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#4. In the long run no individual prospers beyond the measure of his faith.

Bruce Barton

#5. There's three things: there's masculinity, there's intelligence, there's sensitivity. You've got to bring those three things to a leading man's role: masculinity, sensitivity, intelligence. In some people, there's a little too much in the mix of one or the other.

Alec Baldwin

#6. Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art

Virginia Woolf

#7. When I die, remember that what you knew of me is with you always. What is buried is only the shell of what was. Do not regret the shell, but remember the man. Remember the father.

Louis L'Amour

#8. Once you decide to do right, life is easy, there are no distractions.

William Stafford

#9. Make me a shadow on the wall!

Kate Griffin