Brian Crozier quotes

“I've never been to the Soviet Union and the main reason for that is I was warned several times by people from the KGB who had defected to the West that it would be very unsafe for me to go there”
-- Brian Crozier

Source : "Author delivers 'accessible' Soviet history" by Jamie Allen, www.cnn.com. January 5, 2000.

#Kgb Quotes #People Quotes #Would Be Quotes

“I've tried to make a book that's accessible to the ordinary, intelligent reader. Very often books that cover this kind of subject are written by academics, for academics. But I am not an academic.”
-- Brian Crozier

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“A society that does not defend itself is doomed. A system that remains passive in the face of attack deserves to go under. Those unwilling to defend freedom will become unfree. To stand idly by is to commit suicide.”
-- Brian Crozier

#Suicide Quotes #Doe Quotes #Faces Quotes

“The ultimate sophistication of subversion is to take over the government, not by unlawful but by lawful means.”
-- Brian Crozier

Source : Brian Crozier (1993). “Free Agent: The Unseen War 1941-1991”, HarperCollins Publishers

#Mean Quotes #Government Quotes #Subversion Quotes

“It has not been possible to build that society. It set very high standards, because not only would life in the Soviet Union or in any other country which adopted that system, have to be just as good as in the Capitalist world, it would have to be better. So that other peoples, other nations would want to join it, and obviously we have failed in that.”

“There was an intervention of the foreign states in the Russian Far East, Archangel of the West border of Russia. The foreign troops were participating in the attempts to stamp out the revolution. It's not just propaganda, because there are mounds of documents in the archives relating to these events and to the foreign espionage cases.”

“Once a leader delegates, he should show utmost confidence in the people he has entrusted.”

“There are things that happen and leave no discernible trace, are not spoken or written of, though it would be very wrong to say that subsequent events go on indifferently, all the same, as though such things had never been.”

“The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking "Is there a meaning to music?" My answer would be, "Yes", And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer to that would be "No."”

Source : What to Listen for in Music (1939) ch. 2

“Nothing in life was as precious as this woman. It never would be. I’d found my happiness.”

“I hoped there would be a better process. But it is final -- I will not participate .”

“If i were to backbite against anyone, it would be about my parents for they have more right to my good deeds”

“Don’t criticize them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.”

“Faith does not increase, nor does it decrease; because a diminution in it would be unbelief.”