Felix Dzerzhinsky famous quotes

The fact that you are free is not your achievement, but rather a failure on our side.
-- Felix Dzerzhinsky

#Achievement #Facts #Sides

We stand for organized terror - this should be frankly admitted. Terror is an absolute necessity during times of revolution. Our aim is to fight against the enemies of the Soviet Government and of the new order of life. We judge quickly. In most cases only a day passes between the apprehension of the criminal and his sentence. When confronted with evidence criminals in almost every case confess; and what argument can have greater weight than a criminal's own confession.
-- Felix Dzerzhinsky

#Fighting #Government #Order

We represent in ourselves organized terror - this must be said very clearly.
-- Felix Dzerzhinsky

#Said #Terror #Organized

Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness

It is a negative sort of achievement, she thinks, to have spent a life warding something off.

Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.

I don't know all the reasons for these achievements, but I know that I love what I do and I have never wanted to rest on my laurels.

The serene and peaceful mind is the true epitome of human achievement.

Self - development should be a perpetual process. In life you are either growing or rotting. You're moving forward or backwards; there is no standing still.

Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions.

I take it, therefore, to be a fact, that one's existence ends with death. I think it possible to show how this fact can be emotionally acceptable.

The student is to collect and evaluate facts. The facts are locked up in the patient.

Every work has the bad side, and people will be mean to you, and when you're young, you don't know how to defend yourself.