Vyacheslav Molotov quotes

“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 Molotov

Source : "Strategy and Tactics of Soviet Foreign Policy" by John Malcolm Mackintosh, (p. 4), 1963.

#Roots Quotes #Long Quotes #Important Quotes

“There is no alternative to class struggle.”
-- Vyacheslav Molotov

Source : "The Fifty-Year War : Conflict and Strategy in the Cold War" by Norman Friedman, (p. 58), 2007.

#Struggle Quotes #Class Quotes #Alternatives Quotes

“The trouble with free elections is that you never know how they are going to to turn out.”
-- Vyacheslav Molotov

#Election Quotes #Trouble Quotes #Turns Quotes

“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 Molotov

Source : 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.

#Country Quotes #Military Quotes #Real Quotes

“Only a fool would attack us.”
-- Vyacheslav Molotov

Source : "Hitler And Stalin: Parallel Lives". Book by Alan Bullock,p. 715, 1993.

#Fool Quotes

“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 Molotov

Source : Newsweek, Vol. 43, Issues 1-13, (p. 133), 1954.

#Effort Quotes #Growth Quotes #Development Quotes

“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 Molotov

Source : "The German-Polish Frontier" by Walter M. Drzewieniecki, (p. 71), 1959.

#Moving Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“The root of any film project for me is this inner need to express something. What nurtures this root and makes it grow into a tree is the script. What makes the tree bear flowers and fruit is the directing.”

Source : Akira Kurosawa (2011). “Something Like An Autobiography”, p.192, Vintage

“Obey God in all things today! Drive out the enemy! Lay the ax to the root of the tree, and the capacity for Jesus Christ will be increased tomorrow.”

“Thus, in a middle course between these heights and depths, they drifted through life rather than lived, the prey of aimless days and sterile memories, like wandering shadows that could have acquired substance only by consenting to root themselves in the solid earth of their distress.”

“How long does getting thin take?”

“When we asked Pooh what the opposite of an Introduction was, he said "The what of a what?" which didn't help us as much as we had hoped, but luckily Owl kept his head and told us that the Opposite of an Introduction, my dear Pooh, was a Contradiction; and, as he is very good at long words, I am sure that that's what it is.”

“The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.”

“People should be left to believe what they like, so long as they harm no one else. Apart from normal expectations of politeness, it is not however clear why people should require their personal beliefs to be treated with special sensitivity by others, to the point that if others fail to tip-toe respectfully around them they will start throwing bombs.”

Source : A. C. Grayling (2004). “Life, Sex and Ideas: The Good Life Without God”, p.130, Oxford University Press, USA

“I think they are very important because westerns have a code and a symbolism.”

“You can't have too much of everything, you must have a balance, that's very important.”

“Of course education becomes very very important and that's for our human resource development.”