Vyacheslav Molotov quotes
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“As long as we live in a system of states, and as long as the roots of fascism and imperialist aggression have not finally been extirpated, our vigilance in regard to possible new violators of peace should not slacken, and concern for the strengthening of cooperation between the peace-loving powers will continue to be our most important duty.”
-- Vyacheslav MolotovSource : "Strategy and Tactics of Soviet Foreign Policy" by John Malcolm Mackintosh, (p. 4), 1963.
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“There is no alternative to class struggle.”
-- Vyacheslav MolotovSource : "The Fifty-Year War : Conflict and Strategy in the Cold War" by Norman Friedman, (p. 58), 2007.
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“The trouble with free elections is that you never know how they are going to to turn out.”
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“Germany, which has lately united 80 million Germans, has submitted certain neighboring countries to her supremacy and gained military strength in many aspects, and thus has become, as clearly can be seen, a dangerous rival to principal imperialistic powers in Europe - England and France. That is why they declared war on Germany on a pretext of fulfilling the obligations given to Poland. It is now clearer than ever, how remote the real aims of the cabinets in these countries were from the interests of defending the now disintegrated Poland or Czechoslovakia.”
-- Vyacheslav MolotovSource : Molotov's report on (29 March 1940), after the Polish defeat, as quoted in the weekly Soviet newspaper "Moscow News", published by Mezhdunarodnaya Kniga, April 1, 1940.
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“Only a fool would attack us.”
-- Vyacheslav MolotovSource : "Hitler And Stalin: Parallel Lives". Book by Alan Bullock,p. 715, 1993.
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“Our scientists all the more occupy advanced positions in the development of world science. By the example of their successes in the field of atomic energy, our scientists and technicians have vividly shown how much the increased might of the Soviet state and the further growth of its international authority depends on their efforts and practical successes.”
-- Vyacheslav MolotovSource : Newsweek, Vol. 43, Issues 1-13, (p. 133), 1954.
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“Who can think that this eviction of Germans was undertaken only as a temporary experiment? Those who adopted the decision on the eviction of the Germans from these territories, and who understood that Poles from other Polish districts would at once move into these territories, cannot suggest after a while to carry out reverse measures. The very idea of involving millions of people in such experiments is unbelievable, quite apart from the cruelty of it, both towards the Poles and the Germans themselves.”
-- Vyacheslav MolotovSource : "The German-Polish Frontier" by Walter M. Drzewieniecki, (p. 71), 1959.
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Source : Akira Kurosawa (2011). “Something Like An Autobiography”, p.192, Vintage
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“The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.”
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Source : A. C. Grayling (2004). “Life, Sex and Ideas: The Good Life Without God”, p.130, Oxford University Press, USA
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“I think they are very important because westerns have a code and a symbolism.”
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“You can't have too much of everything, you must have a balance, that's very important.”
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“Of course education becomes very very important and that's for our human resource development.”
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