Comrades Quotes
|
God seeks comrades and claims love , The devil seeks slaves and claims obedience .
|
More Comrades Quotes
Henceforth we will tackle our enemies that come face to face with us and we will not be stabbed in from behind by internal foes... To this end, we will arm the allies and comrades of the broad masses without giving respite to reactionaries, and avenge the blood of our comrades double - and triple - fold.
mengistu haile mariam— February 5 (1977), as quoted by Dawit Wolde Giorgis (1989) Red Tears: War, Famine and Revolution in Ethiopia, The Red Sea Press Inc., p. 31
"This is a wrong course the Chinese comrades are trying to lead us on to, it is an opportunist road of vacillation and concessions to the Khrushchev traitor group which finds itself in grave difficulties, and is intriguing in order to escape defeat."
enver hoxha— Enver Hoxha, Reflections on China, 1962-1972, vol. I [1] (Tirana: 8 Nëntori Publishing House, 1979)
God seeks comrades and claims love. The devil seeks slaves and claims obedience.
rabindranath tagore— Rabindranath Tagore, Fireflies (1928)
Some comrades apparently find it hard to understand that democracy is just a slogan.
— 1987 In the Observer,1 Feb.
(On 1941.7.2 Dimitrov handed Molotov a proposal, suggesting a help fund of 2 millions US Dollars be given to Chinese Communist Party. After discussion, the Soviet Communist Party had approved the sum of One million US Dollars.) Dimitrov then wrote to Molotov:"It is very important to let Chinese comrades to have at least half of the sum as soon as possible, we believe it is necessary to deliver the fund using illegal methods by planes through Mongolia.
georgi dimitrov— Dimitrov Diaries
German Nazism could not have succeeded in establishing itself except as a result of the theoretical contributions of Fichte, Goethe and Nietzsche, coupled with the ingenious and mighty leadership of Hitler and his comrades.
abul ala maududi— 1977, Minhaj al-inqilab al-Islami. (The method of Islamic Revolution) p.19
SS Colonel Wilhelm Mohnke was reportedly involved in more than one atrocity. A quick-tempered and harsh man — even toward other SS — he was generally disliked, even by his comrades. On June 11, he interrogated three Canadian prisoners and, after shouting at them and gesturing in anger, had them taken to the edge of a deep bomb crater and shot.
wilhelm mohnke— Samuel W. Mitcham
If we pose the question in a soviet, communist fashion, then no republic will be offended. If we pose the question egotistically, it is necessary to answer directly- Azerbaijan will be hurt, Georgia to a lesser degree, and Armenia not at all... Who among you would get up and say that anything we get from the exchange of Baku oil should be refused to our Armenian comrades?
grigoriy ordzhonikidze— Quoted in "The Azerbaijani Turks: power and identity under Russian rule" - Page 115 - by Audrey L. Altstadt - History – 1992
God seeks comrades and claims love,the Devil seeks slaves and claims obedience.
rabindranath tagore— 25
We have reached the age, those of us to whom fortune has assigned a post in life's struggle, when, beaten and smashed and biffed by the lashings of the dragon's tail, we begin to appreciate that the old man was not such a damned fool after all. We saw our parents wrestling with that same dragon, and we thought, though we never spoke the thought aloud, 'Why don't he hit him on the head?' Alas, comrades, we know now. We have hit the dragon on the head and we have seen the dragon smile.
ernest thayer— Spoken at Thayer's tenth anniversary reunion at Harvard, 1895, as quoted in "American Heritage," (December 1968).
Fire signals of an attack were also raised toward Thebes, but the Plataeans in the city at once displayed a number of others, prepared beforehand for this very purpose, in order to render the enemy's signals unintelligible, and to prevent his friends from getting a true idea of what was happening and coming to his aid before their comrades who had gone out should have made good their escape and be in safety.
Thucydides— Book III, 3.22-[7]-[8] (See also: Spoofing attack...)
Remember this moment. If we don't convince the field marshal (Fedor von Bock) to fly to Hitler at once and have these orders (Commissar Order) canceled, the German people will be burdened with a guilt the world will not forget in a hundred years. This guilt will fall not only on Hitler, Himmler, Göring, and their comrades but on you and me, your wife and mine, your children and mine, that woman crossing the street, and those children over there playing ball.
henning von tresckow— 1941. Fest, Joachim. Plotting Hitler's Death, 175
— Robert Kane, Disobedience and Conspiracy in the German Army, 1918-1945, 163
Writers around the world protested when two Communist writers, Siniavski and Daniel, were sentenced to prison by their own comrades. But not even churches protest when Christians are put in prison for their faith.
richard wurmbrand— p. 74 (Tortured For Christ (1967))
"If a hero must have an unmarked grave, it should at least be close to where his comrades fell." "comrades?" "One way or another we all fight for the things we believe in. Doesn't that give us some common ground?"
tom clancy— Jack Ryan and MG Dalmatov, SA; The Cardinal of the Kremlin (1988), p. 796
My difficulty with working class writers is that they don't make the working class come alive Leslie Halward is an exception, but as you imply he is not very important. They give me information and they give their comrades gratification, but that's all; gloom, indignation, aspiration in plenty, and plenty of stains on the tablecloth and coal-dust in the mine but no living beings to experience them.
e. m. forster— Letter 350, to John Lehmann, 21 December 1940
I am a friend, comrades, a friend!
yuri gagarin— First words upon returning to earth, to a woman and a girl near where his capsule landed (12 April 1961) The woman asked: "Can it be that you have come from outer space?" to which Gagarin replied: "As a matter of fact, I have!" As quoted in The Air Up There : More Great Quotations on Flight (2003) by Dave English, p. 118
Life has improved, comrades. Life has become more joyous.
joseph stalin— In Russian: ?, ?. ?.Speech at the Conference of Stakhanovites (17 November 1935)
I will write the evangel-poem of comrades and of love.
walt whitman— Starting from Paumanok. 6.
The theory that the struggle between Bolshevism and Menshevism is a struggle for influence over an immature proletariat is not a new one. We have been encountering it since 1905 in innumerable books, pamphlets, and articles in the liberal press. Martov and Trotsky are putting before the German comrades liberal views with a Marxist coating...
— V.I. Lenin, as quoted by Lev Kamenev “Leninism or Trotskyism?” (1911)
It is a comfort to the miserable to have comrades in misfortune, but it is a poor comfort after all.
Christopher Marlowe— Christopher Marlowe, Faustus. in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 124-25.
The fiend with all his comrades Fell then from heaven above, Through as long as three nights and days, The angels from heaven into hell; And them all the Lord transformed to devils, Because they his deed and word Would not revere.
— Creation: The Fall of the Rebel Angels (c. 670).
Fire signals of an attack were also raised toward Thebes , but the Plataeans in the city at once displayed a number of others, prepared beforehand for this very purpose, in order to render the enemy's signals unintelligible, and to prevent his friends from getting a true idea of what was happening and coming to his aid before their comrades who had gone out should have made good their escape and be in safety.
— Book III, 3.22-[7]-[8] (See also: Spoofing attack...)
The tolerant and open atmosphere of their childhood had enabled them to see through Hitler 's platitudes at the Nuremberg Rally, when the brother and sister were members of Nazi youth organizations. Nearly all their peers were completely won over by the Führer, whereas Hans and Sophie had other, higher expectations of human nature , not shared by their comrades, against which they could measure Hitler.
— Alice Miller on Sophie and Hans Scholl's resistance to the social engineering of the Nazi regime, in Thou Shalt Not be Aware (1984).
God seeks comrades and claims love. The devil seeks slaves and claims obedience .
rabindranath tagore— Rabindranath Tagore, Fireflies (1928).
Where is his son, The nimble-footed mad-cap prince of Wales, And his comrades, that daff'd the world aside, And bid it pass?
— Hotspur, scene i
We make war and revolution at the same time. Militiamen are fighting for the conquest of the land, the factories, bread, and culture … the pickaxe and the shovel are as important as the rifle. comrades, we will win the war!
buenaventura durruti— Interview (3 October 1936), as quoted in Durruti in the Spanish Revolution (1996) by Abel Paz, as translated by Chuck W. Morse (2007), p. 536
comrades! We must abolish the cult of the individual decisively, once and for all.
nikita khrushchev— "The Cult of the Individual and Its Consequences" (24 February 1956), quoted in Lend Me Your Ears (2004) by William Safire
Saturninus said, "comrades, you have lost a good captain to make him an ill general."
Michel de Montaigne— Book III, ch. 9. Of Vanity
