Molotov Quotes
More Molotov Quotes
I rather liked Stalin and Molotov, got along fine with them.
joachim von ribbentrop— To Leon Goldensohn, February 16, 1946, from "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004
When I made my theoretical model, I could not have guessed that people would try to realise it with Molotov cocktails.
theodor adorno— As quoted in The Dialectical Imagination : A History of the Frankfurt School and the Institute of Social Research (1973) by M Jay, p. 279.
What will happen once the authentic mass man takes over, we do not know yet, although it may be a fair guess that he will have more in common with the meticulous, calculated correctness of Himmler than with the hysterical fanaticism of Hitler , will more resemble the stubborn dullness of Molotov than the sensual vindictive cruelty of Stalin .
hannah arendt— Part 3, Ch. 10, § 2
Albania's Enver Hoxha was unusual in being well read in the European literature classics - and Molotov thought his cosmopolitanism a reason for suspicion. But Hoxha was a conventional communist dictator in denying his people access to disapproved alien culture.
enver hoxha— Robert Service (2007), Comrades!: a history of world communism, (Harvard University Press, page 354), ISBN 067402530X
I have conferred with the superintendent of police this morning and I gave him instructions that an order be issued by him immediately and under his signature to shoot to kill any arsonist or anyone with a Molotov cocktail in his hand.
richard j. daley— David Farber (1994). Chicago '68. University of Chicago Press. pp. pg 145(b),pg 249(a). ISBN 0226238016.
— Stated one week following the April 1968 Chicago riots to the people of Chicago because of his dissatisfaction with the minimum use of force employed by Police Superintendent James B. Conlisk in dealing with rioters.
