Mikhail Kalinin quotes

“If you are called upon to govern humans, treat them humanely.”
-- Mikhail Kalinin

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“You must remember that we persecute nobody for religion. We regard religion as an error and fight it with education.”
-- Mikhail Kalinin

Source : "Stalin's Holy War: Religion, Nationalism, and Alliance Politics" by Steven Merritt Miner, (p. 109), 2003.

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“The national question is purely a peasant question...the best way to eliminate nationality is a massive factory with thousands of workers..., which like a millstone grinds up all nationalities and forges a new nationality. This nationality is the universal proletariat.”
-- Mikhail Kalinin

Source : "The Affirmative Action Empire" by Terry Martin, (p. 147), 2001.

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“The Jews will become socialist colonisers with strong fists and sharp teeth, a strong national group within the Soviet family of nations.”
-- Mikhail Kalinin

Source : "Inside the Middle East" by Dilip Hiro, (p. 232), 1982.

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“For thousands of years humankind's finest minds have been struggling with the theoretical problem of finding the forms that would give peoples the possibility, without the greatest of torment, without internecine strife, of living side by side in friendship and brotherhood. Practically speaking, the first step in this direction is only being taken now, today.”
-- Mikhail Kalinin

Source : "Survivor From An Unknown War: The Life of Isakjan Narzikul" by Stephen Lee Crane, (p. 3), 1999.

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“But even now, after the greatest victory known to history we cannot for one minute forget the basic fact that our country remains the one socialist state in the world. You will speak frankly about this to the collective farmers...Only the most concrete, most immediate danger, which threatened us from Hitlerite Germany, has disappeared.”
-- Mikhail Kalinin

Source : "The Soviet Union Since World War II" by American Academy of Political and Social Science, Philip Edward Mosely, (p. 4), 1949.

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“The whole history of my life, and in essence the whole history of the working class consists of this: that we have lived and fought under the leadership of Lenin and Stalin.”
-- Mikhail Kalinin

Source : "USSR Information Bulletin", (p. 322), 1942.

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“Yes there's a lady that stands in a harbor for what we believe. And there's a bell that still echoes the price that it cost to be free.”

Source : Song: Where the Stars and Stripes and the Eagle Fly

“We hail the return of the day of thy birth, Fair Columbia! washed by the waves of two oceans Where men from the farthest dominions of earth Rear altars to Freedom, and pay their devotions; Where our fathers in fight, nobly strove for the Right, Struck down their fierce foemen or put them to flight; Through the long lapse of ages, that so there might be An asylum for all in the Land of the Free.”

Source : Abraham Coles (1880). “The microcosm, and other poems”

“Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.”

“Love reacts with goodness towards those who ill-treat it.”

“A lot of my movies were completely destroyed by the censors, who can be pretty arbitrary. They're not completely fair with how they treat one person vs. another.”

Source : Interview with Noel Murray, film.avclub.com. March 20, 2008.

“Never treat somebody’s cleverness as his life’s smartness. Cleverness is to hide the weakness and the smartness is to project the strength of his weakness.”

“Charities must treat donors as if they were shareholders.”

Source : "Can this 'venture philanthropist' save our schools?". www.theguardian.com. May 29, 2005.

“I've grown so much, not just as an actor, but as a human being.”

Source : "Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul discuss their cutthroat relationship on 'Breaking Bad'". Interview with Glenn Whipp, articles.latimes.com. June 10, 2010.

“The things that happen on the sea take you beyond yourself, beyond human capability.”

Source : Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.179, Thomas Nelson Inc

“The human race has improved everything, but the human race.”