Lavrentiy Beria quotes
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“Show me the man and I’ll find you the crime.”
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“Given a short time with a psycho-politician you can alter forever the loyalty of a soldier in our hands or a statesman or a leader in his own country, or you can destroy his mind.”
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“Do you know that there's hardly anyone left of last year's Caucasian governments? I've tried to stop it, but in vain. Yet they can't all be Trotskyites and traitors.”
-- Lavrentiy BeriaSource : "The Kremlin and the People". Book by Walter Duranty, p. 126, 2007.
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“The enemies of the Soviet state calculate that the heavy loss we have borne will lead to disorder and confusion in our ranks. But their expectations are in vain: bitter disillusionment awaits them. He who is not blind sees that our party, during its difficult days, is closing its ranks still more closely, that it is united and unshakable.”
-- Lavrentiy BeriaSource : "The Current Digest of the Soviet Press". Issued by the Joint Committee on Slavic Studies, p. 9, 1953.
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“Show me the man and I’ll find you the crime.”
-- Lavrentiy Beria
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“Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.”
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“Nothing is more devastating to a community than out-of-control crime.”
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“The crime film is the most honest American film.”
Source : "Cannes 2012: Brad Pitt Says His New Crime Film Isn't an Attack on Obama" by Gregg Kilday, www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 22, 2012.
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“Everything comes to the man who won't wait.”
Source : Ada Leverson (2012). “Tenterhooks”, p.58, tredition
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“The man who asks a woman what she wants deserves all that's coming to him.”
Source : Alec Waugh (2011). “'Sir!' She Said”, p.10, A&C Black
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“Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow; The rest is all but leather and prunello.”
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“The man incapable of contemplation cannot be an artist, but only a skillful workman.”
Source : Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy, Rama P. Coomaraswamy (2004). “The Essential Ananda K. Coomaraswamy”, p.133, World Wisdom, Inc
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“There is no room for God in the man who is filled with himself.”
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