“They new the old folk wisdom: what has been built might be really crap and therefore it doesn’t make any sense to dig it, for the smell could make the life really impossible. They regarded Gorbachev exactly that kind of a fool, who had broken the rule.”
Katastroika (1988)
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Aleksandr Zinovyev 28
Russian writer 1922–2006Related quotes
As quoted in Useful Quotations : A Cyclopedia of Quotations (1933) edited by Tryon Edwards, C. N. Catrevas, and Jonathan Edwards

“Any fool can make a rule
And every fool will mind it.”
February 3, 1860
Journals (1838-1859)
Source: http://thoreau.library.ucsb.edu/writings_journals_pdfs/J15f4-f6.pdf#page=289
Source: Journal #14
"Interrupting Your Life: An Ethics for the Coming Storm" (2014)

The Den of Geek interview: Louise Jameson https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/the-den-of-geek-interview-louise-jameson/ (February 14, 2008)

Remarks on the end of the miners' strike (3 March 1985) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/105982
Second term as Prime Minister