Palmiro Togliatti quotes

Palmiro Togliatti quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Joseph Stalin is a titan of thought. His name is to be given to an entire century.”
-- Palmiro Togliatti

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“The Lord has different names according to His different activities. For example, His name is MadhusÃ¼dana because He killed the demon of the name Madhu; His name is Govinda because He gives pleasure to the cows and to the senses”
“Therefore a person fully absorbed in the bodily concept of life is surely killing himself by not making spiritual progress. Such a person is called pasu-ghna. Especially excluded from spiritual life are the animal hunters, who are not interested in hearing and chanting the holy name of the Lord. Such hunters are always unhappy, both in this life and in the next. It is therefore said that a hunter should neither die nor live because for such persons both living and dying are troublesome.”
“If one were asked to name one musician who came closest to composing without human flaw, I suppose general consensus would choose Johann Sebastian Bach...”

Source : Aaron Copland (1959). “The pleasures of music”
“War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.”
“I couldn't forget. I couldn't break. She had the power to break me. No one had ever been given that power, ever.”
“Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers. Given all the changes, both economic and technological, SF hasn't done too badly.”
“You largely constructed your depression. It wasn't given to you. Therefore, you can deconstruct it.”
“It's hard for me to think of others because I'm not particularly in sympathy with the music of this century.”
“This is the century of fear.”
“I am now seventy, rather glad, really, that I won't live to see the horrors to come in the 21st century.”

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