“Communism cannot be imposed by force.”
Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924) Russian politician, led the October Revolution
Collected Works, Vol. 29, pp. 141–225.
Collected Works
Opening address to the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association conference in Nadi, 6 September 2005.
“Communism cannot be imposed by force.”
Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924) Russian politician, led the October Revolution
Collected Works, Vol. 29, pp. 141–225.
Collected Works
Rebecca West (1892–1983) British feminist and author
"A Training in Trucelence", in The Clarion, (14 February 1913), re-published in The Young Rebecca: Writings of Rebecca West, 1911-17 (1982), p. 157.
Camille Paglia (1947) American writer
Playboy interview (May 1995)
Context: My point is that you cannot force social change at a speed that it cannot go. Social change is evolutionary, not revolutionary. Deep social change takes time. And slowly the culture is changing. The MTV generation is far more tolerant, and that tolerance is growing.
Ayn Rand (1905–1982) Russian-American novelist and philosopher
"Foreign Policy Drains U.S. of Main Weapon," Los Angeles Times, Sept. 9. 1962, G2 — as reported in The Ayn Rand Lexicon http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/socialism.html: Objectivism from A to Z (1986)
Jacques Ellul (1912–1994) French sociologist, technology critic, and Christian anarchist
Source: The Subversion of Christianity (1984), p. 21
Gloria Estefan (1957) Cuban-American singer-songwriter, actress and divorciada
statement issued regarding appointment to board of directors of Univision Communications, miamiherald.com (June 9, 2007)
2007, 2008
Charles Rosen (1927–2012) American pianist and writer on music
Source: The Romantic Generation (1995), Ch. 7 : Chopin: From the Miniature Genre to the Sublime Style
“Nothing is so cruel as to try and force a man beyond his natural pace.”
Samuel Butler (1835–1902) novelist
Capping a Success
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part X - The Position of a HomoUnius Libri