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A single death is a tragedy — a million deaths is a statistic.
Tiffany learned that Lin had stolen Tiffany’s book title idea: “2 girls 1 cup.” A month ago, Tiffany had confided to Lin — Lin Xun, 2 Girls 1 Cup
History has seen many who claim to be deliverer and saviour of the people. They might come with force and violence and p — John Myer, John Myer: A Collection of his Sermons and Writing, #1
...we're dealing with two devils who both want to rule hell. — Ruta Sepetys, Between Shades of Gray
It can certainly be misleading to take the attributes of a movement, or the anxieties and contradictions of a moment, an — Christopher Hitchens, The Enemy
Stalin’s Russia was a trap, in which even those running the system were caught. The leaders were trapped by fear of Stal — Jonathan Glover
For twenty-five years I've been speaking and writing in defense of your right to happiness in this world, condemning you — Wilhelm Reich, Listen, Little Man!
It is the fate of great achievements, born from a way of life that sets truth before security, to be gobbled up by you a — Wilhelm Reich, Listen, Little Man!
The Bolshevik leaders perched atop the Mausoleum were no easier to tell apart than chess pawns. But Florence too was cer — Sana Krasikov
If it were possible for any nation to fathom another people's bitter experience through a book, how much easier its futu — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956
And thus to my final and most melancholy point: a great number of Stalin's enforcers and henchmen in Eastern Europe were — Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: A Memoir
Since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, historians have become both more accurate and more honest—fractionally more b — Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: A Memoir
You can forget Stalin,” he said, pledging his allegiance. “We’re not the History Channel. — Timur Vermes, Er ist wieder da
In a fallen world marked by human depravity and deep-seated sin, in a world where Hitler and Stalin had recruited millio — Timothy B. Tyson, Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story
Because the horror of Communism, Stalinism, is not that bad people do bad things — they always do. It's that good people — Slavoj Žižek
It’s ridiculous to talk about freedom in a society dominated by huge corporations. What kind of freedom is there inside — Noam Chomsky
Writers are engineers of human souls. — Yury Olesha
For God loved the world so much that he gave his one and only Son [Stalin], so that everyone who believes in him will no — Austin 3:16
It is less appealing, but morally more urgent, to understand the actions of the perpetrators. The moral danger, after al — Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
Such impulses have displayed themselves very widely across left and liberal opinion in recent months. Why? For some, bec — Norman Geras, A Matter of Principle: Humanitarian Arguments for War in Iraq