![Communist regimes were not some unfortunate aberration, some historical deviation from a socialist ideal. They were the ultimate expression, unconstrained by democratic and electoral pressures, of what socialism is all about. ... In short, the state [is] everything and the individual nothing.](/assets/img/quote-photos/communist-regimes-were-not-some-unfortunate-aberration-some-historical-deviation.jpg)
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expression people feelings
A sensible human once said, "If people knew how much ill-feeling unselfishness occasions, it would not be so often recommended from the pulpit"; and again, "She's the sort of woman who lives for others you can always tell the others by their hunted expression. C. S. Lewis
expression understanding identity
We become full human agents, capable of understanding ourselves, and hence of defining our identity, through our acquisition of rich human languages of expression. Charles Taylor
expression fly
The expression that they've used is I fly the plane. Chris Garrett
expression eyes hugging stop
The expression in her eyes was an expression that Byron had described to us as the look of hope. I couldn't stop myself from hugging her.
expression others
What we crave, what we want to see in others eyes, is that servile expression, an unconcealed infatuation with our gestures.
expression air speech
The delicate thought, that cannot find expression, For ruder speech too fair, That, like thy petals, trembles in possession, And scatters on the air. Bret Harte
expression who-i-am kind
Music is just kind of an expression of who I am. It's what I do. David Sanborn
expression dies
That'll be the day when I die. Buddy Holly
expression spirituality achieve
Work, which is considered an expression of a person’s value, also becomes a part of one’s spirituality and achieves the higher aim of the Supreme Good Brunello Cucinelli
historical details teach
Familiar life, tending to sordidness, had been succeeded by remote life, generally idealized; historical detail had been brought in to teach readers who were being entertained. Carl Clinton Van Doren
historical knowledge
When I'm working on historical books, I'm much more organized. I usually read about 100 books to get the depth of knowledge I need. Marissa Moss
historical history original people period stoke tendency
I often tell people who want to write historical fiction: don't read all that much about the period you're writing about; read things from the period that you're writing about. There's a tendency to stoke up on a lot of biography and a lot of history, and not to actually get back to the original sources. Thomas Mallon
historical hold knew lives parents teachers truth
Teachers don't tell us the truth about historical people. If we knew the truth, parents couldn't hold their lives up as examples. Tom Hulce
historical records kind
I've got nothing against records - I've spent my life making them - but they are a kind of historical blip. Brian Eno
historical revolution fantasy
All revolutions are the sheerest fantasy until they happen; then they become historical inevitabilities. David Mitchell
historical excess world
An active propaganda machinery controlled bv the world's largest corporations constantly reassures us that consumerism is the path to happiness, governmental restraint of market excess is the cause our distress, and economic globalization is both a historical inevitability and a boon to the human species. David Korten
historical empires literature
The Sixties are now considered a historical period, just like the Roman Empire. Dave Barry
historical history images people
I'm a sponge for historical images of black people and black history on film. Kara Walker
aberration
The love of freedom is actually an aberration. Dennis Prager
aberration literature chastity
Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest. Anatole France