Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924) Russian politician, led the October Revolution
As quoted in George Leggett, The Cheka: Lenin’s Political Police (1981), p. 119.
Attributions
Telegram to Leon Trotsky (7 September 1918) http://marxists.anu.edu.au/archive/lenin/works/1918/sep/07ldt.htm as translated by Andrew Rothstein; the recovery he mentions was of the wounds he received in the assassination attempt on him a few days earlier; published in Collected Works, Vol. 35, p. 359 <br class="br">I am confident that the suppression of the Kazan Czechs and White Guards, and likewise of the bloodsucking kulaks who support them, will be a model of mercilessness. <br class="br">As translated in The Cheka : Lenin’s Political Police (1981) by George Leggett, p. 119, <br class="br">1910s
Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924) Russian politician, led the October Revolution
As quoted in George Leggett, The Cheka: Lenin’s Political Police (1981), p. 119.
Attributions
Gregor Strasser (1892–1934) German politician, rival of Adolf Hitler inside the Nazi Psrty
As quoted in Gregor Strasser and the Rise of Nazism, Peter D. Stachura, Routledge (2015) p. 54
Henry Purcell, Edward Taylor (1843) in "Introduction" to, King Arthur: an opera in 5 acts, written by John Dryden. p. 3; Introduction; Cited in: James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch (1852), Fraser's Magazine, Vol. 45, p. 198
“We praise loyalty, but it pays the price when it supports those whom Fortune crushes.”
Dat poenas laudata fides, cum sustinet inquit
quos fortuna premit.
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus book Pharsalia
Book VIII, line 485 (tr. J. D. Duff).
Pharsalia
Francis Bacon (1561–1626) English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, and author
The Essays Or Counsels, Civil And Moral, Of Francis Ld. Verulam Viscount St. Albans (1625), Of Judicature
Gottfried Feder (1883–1941) German economist and politician
Source: The German State on a National and Socialist Foundation (1923), p. 54
Carl Andre (1935) American artist
14.7 pounds per square inch. So in a sense, that might represent a column. It's not an idea, it's a sense of something you know, a demarked place. Somehow I think I always thought of it going that way, rather than an idea of a narrowing triangle going to the center of the earth.. .I have nothing to do with Conceptual art [in contrast to his Physical Art, as Carl Andre called his sculpture art already in 1969]]. I'm not interested in ideas. If I were interested in ideas, I'd be in a field where what we think in is ideas.. .I don't really know what an idea is. One thing for me is that if I can frame something in language, I would never make art out of it. I make art out of things which cannot be framed in any other way. [quote from a talk with the audience, December 1969]
Source: Artists talks 1969 – 1977, p. 12
Margrethe II of Denmark (1940) Queen of Denmark
New Year's Address 2011/2 http://kongehuset.dk/english/Menu/news/her-majesty-the-queens-new-year-speech-2011 (01 January 2012). <br class="br">Society