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“When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her”. –Sacha Guitry

“In relations with other nations, there is neither right nor wrong; there is only strength and weakness”. –Roman Dmowski

“Liberalization and democratization are in essence counter-revolutionary”. –Andrei Grechko

“Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor”. –Sholem Aleichem

“The trouble with free elections is that you never know how they are going to turn out”. –Vyacheslav Molotov

“The duration of every political phase is just as long as it takes to unveil its shortcomings and evil. While discovering its defects, it makes way for a new phase, liberated from these failings. Thus, these impairments that appear in a situation and destroy it are the very forces of human evolution, as they raise humanity to a more corrected state”. –Yehuda Ashlag

“They’re thinking of turning the peasant into an educated man. Why, first of all they should make him a good and prosperous farmer and then he’ll learn all that is necessary for him to know”. –Nikolai Gogol

“As you know, I am not a writer but a Party functionary. But like every Communist, I consider myself to have been mobilized by Party propaganda and deem it my duty to actively participate in the work of our press”. –Leonid Brezhnev