“Autocratic governments are masters of self-contradiction. They say one thing, do another.”
Alastair Reynolds book On the Steel Breeze
Source: On the Steel Breeze (2013), Chapter 22 (p. 253)
“Do not cave in, Russian people,
Keep fighting steadfast.
For the International cleaves itself
To your revolution.
A reprisal we ask
For that autocratic rabble.
Let autocratic blood
Flow through the streets unceasingly.”
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For the International cleaves itself
To your revolution.
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Source: As quoted in US-Soviet Relations : The First 50 Years WNET TV {17 April 1984)
Muammar Gaddafi (1942–2011) Libyan revolutionary, politician and political theorist
Audio message broadcast on the pro-Gaddafi Syrian Al Rai TV on 1 September 2011, quoted on Al Jazeera live blog http://blogs.aljazeera.net/liveblog/libya http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/09/201191141151339449.html. <br class="br">Speeches
Joe Biden (1942) 47th Vice President of the United States (in office from 2009 to 2017)
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Pablo Neruda (1904–1973) Chilean poet
Preguntaréis ¿por qué su poesía
no nos habla del sueño, de las hojas,
de los grandes volcanes de su país natal?<p>Venid a ver la sangre por las calles,
venid a ver
la sangre por las calles,
venid a ver la sangre
por las calles!
Explico Algunos Cosas (I'm Explaining a Few Things or I Explain a Few Things), Tercera Residencia (Third Residence), IV, stanza 9.
Alternate translation by Donald D. Walsh:
You will ask: why does your poetry
not speak to us of of sleep, of the leaves,
of the great volcanoes of your native land?<p>Come and se the blood in the streets,
come and see
the blood in the streets,
come and see the blood
in the streets!
Residencia en la Tierra (Residence on Earth) (1933)
Winston S. Churchill book The Second World War
The Second World War (1939–1945)
Source: To Stanisław Mikołajczyk in Moscow, October 14, 1944. Quoted in Churchill, Hitler, and the Unnecessary War (2008) by Patrick J Buchanan, p. 380.
“(It is) the Russian world we are fighting for, and in this sense, each of us is Russian.”
Anatoly Bibilov (1970) Russian politician
Source: Anatoly Bibilov (2021) cited in " Tskhinvali Leader in Donbas: “We Fight for Russian World” https://civil.ge/archives/439581" on Civil, 9 September 2021.
John Adams (1735–1826) 2nd President of the United States
Letter to Thomas Jefferson (24 August 1815), The Works of John Adams; he later expressed similar sentiments in a letter to Hezekiah Niles (13 February 1818)
1810s
Context: As to the history of the revolution, my ideas may be peculiar, perhaps singular. What do we mean by the Revolution? The war? That was no part of the revolution; it was only an effect and consequence of it. The revolution was in the minds of the people, and this was effected from 1760–1775, in the course of fifteen years, before a drop of blood was shed at Lexington.