Leon Quotes
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Prepare for your death, Leon!
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More Leon Quotes
Do not be afraid, Leon, — I feel much better; but in case anything should happen to me I wanted to leave you something to remember me by. Perhaps I ought not to say it so soon after my husband's death; but as I might die, I wanted to tell you now that I loved you very, very much.
henryk sienkiewicz— Anelia, to Leon, 21 November
Here's to the day when the complete works of Leon Trotsky are published and widely distributed in the Soviet Union. On that day the USSR will have achieved democracy!
c. wright mills— Mills was invited to speak in the Soviet Union as an honored guest, due to his criticisms of economies in the West; he was asked to make a toast at a banquet, and in his contrarian way, toasted Trotsky, whose works had been banned in the Soviet Union by Stalin. Reported in Saul Landau, "C. Wright Mills: The Last Six Months", Ramparts (August 1965), p. 49-50.
Here's to the day when the complete works of Leon Trotsky are published and widely distributed in the Soviet Union. On that day the USSR will have achieved democracy!
— C. Wright Mills, reported in Saul Landau, "C. Wright Mills: The Last Six Months", Ramparts (August 1965), p. 49-50.
Thank you, Leon...
— Who: Sara Trantoul
— Notes: Said at the end of the ritual to create the Vampire Killer whip, which required a vampire's soul. Sara offered herself, as she had been bitten by Walter Bernhard, the game's main antagonist.
Arrgh! my chest, it's... burning!! (Leon Scenerio A) Get that scum! Make him pay! (Leon Scenerio B)
— Who: Ben Burtellucci
— Note: In Scenerio A, Ben has a G-Virus embryo implanted by William Birkin. As he says this, the embryo violently bursts out of Ben's body. In Scenerio B, Ben says this to Leon after being mortally wounded by a mutated William Birkin.
[Leon: Thanks. When we get out of here, drinks are on me. ]Yeah, I know a good bar!
— Who: Mike/Pilot
— Note: After helping Leon out, he is shot down by a rocket launcher by one of Saddler's men.
(Che) il Leon non combatte con la mosca.
francesco bracciolini— V., 41.
— Translation: For never doth the lion fight with flies.
— Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 315.
"La dernière chose que nous attendions de vous, Général, est une leçon de géométrie:;!"
pierre-simon laplace— Translation: "The last thing we expect of you, General, is a lesson in geometry!"Laplace to Napoléon, after the latter had reported on some new elementary geometry results
Que les supplices des criminels soient utiles. Un homme pendu n’est bon à rien, et un homme condamné aux ouvrages publics sert encore la patrie, et est une leçon vivante.
voltaire— Let the punishments of criminals be useful. A hanged man is good for nothing; a man condemned to public works still serves the country, and is a living lesson."Civil and Ecclesiastical Laws," Dictionnaire philosophique (1785-1789)Note: The Dictionnaire philosophique was a posthumously published collection of articles combining the Dictionnaire philosophique portatif (published under various editions and titles from 1764 to 1777), the Questions sur l'Encyclopédie (published from 1770 to 1774), articles written for the Encyclopédie and the Dictionnaire de l'Académie française, the manuscript known as l'Opinion sur l'alphabet and a number of previously published miscellaneous articles.
The CPUSA [i.e., Communist Party of the USA] would do literally anything for Moscow, even kill: Party members were intimately involved in assassination plots against the heretic Bolshevik Leon Trotsky, and later they would assist in unsuccessful KGB plots to break his murderer out of jail.
— Glenn Garvin (2004), Still Fools for Communism, Reason.com
