Simon Sebag-Montefiore quotes

Simon Sebag-Montefiore quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“The greatest privilege of childhood is to live totally in the present.”
-- Simon Sebag-Montefiore

#Childhood Quotes #Privilege Quotes
“Stalin was formed by much more than a miserable childhood, just as the USSR was formed by much more than Marxist ideology.”
-- Simon Sebag-Montefiore

Source : Simon Sebag Montefiore (2009). “Young Stalin”, p.25, Vintage

#Childhood Quotes #Miserable Quotes #Marxist Quotes
“The Bible became the book of books, but it is not one document. It is a mystical library of interwoven texts by unknown authors who wrote and edited at different times with widely divergent aims. This sacred work of so many epochs and so many hands contains some facts of provable history, some stories of unprovable myth, some poetry of soaring beauty, and many passages of unintelligible, perhaps coded, perhaps simply mistranslated, mystery. Most of it is written not to recount events but to promote a higher truthâ€”the relationship of one people and their God.”
-- Simon Sebag-Montefiore

#Book Quotes #Hands Quotes #People Quotes
“The Jews had a love-hate relationship with the Greek culture. They craved its civilization but resented its dominance. Josephus says they regarded Greeks as feckless, promiscuous, modernizing lightweights, yet many Jerusalemites were already living the fashionable lifestyle using Greek and Jewish names to show they could be both. Jewish conservatives disagreed; for them, the Greeks were simply idolaters.”
-- Simon Sebag-Montefiore

#Hate Quotes #Civilization Quotes #Names Quotes
“The language of these Soviet show trials... could only be understood in the Aesopian imagery of the closed Bolshevik universe of conspiracies of evil against good in which 'terrorism' simply signified 'any doubt about the policies or character of Stalin.' All his political opponents were per se assassins. More than two 'terrorists' was a 'conspiracy'.”
-- Simon Sebag-Montefiore

#Character Quotes #Two Quotes #Evil Quotes

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