Jersey Belle Quotes & Sayings

Party-mindedness" was "an almost mystical concept," explained Kopelev. "The indispensable prerequisites were iron discipline and faithful observance of all the rituals of Party life." As one veteran Communist put it, a Bolshevik was not someone who believed merely in Marxism but "someone who had absolute faith in the Party no matter what . . . A person with the ability to adapt his morality and conscience in such a way that he can unreservedly accept the dogma that the Party is never wrong - even though it's wrong all the time." Stalin did not exaggerate when he boasted: "We Bolsheviks are people of a special cut."2 Nadya — Simon Sebag Montefiore

My brother got shot three times two months ago, and he didn't get the fever."
"I bet your family gets shot at a lot, huh? — Shelly Laurenston

A misty radiance, through which stars were struggling to twinkle, filled the night sky beyond the tiny window beside him. — Robert Galbraith

Fear is a habit; I am not afraid. — Aung San Suu Kyi

The hegemony of finance and the banks has produced the indebted. Control over information and communication networks has created the mediatized. The security regime and the generalized state of exception have constructed a figure prey to fear and yearning for protection - the securitized. And the corruption of democracy has forged a strange, depoliticized figure, the represented. These subjective figures constitute the social terrain on which - and against which - movements of resistance and rebellion must act. — Michael Hardt

People tend to believe the bad rather than the good. — Giovanni Boccaccio

When I was about 9 years old, I became very interested in the human body and diseases. In general, I was just curious about the world around me. I think that any sort of curiosity as a child is a good beginning to a career in science because science, at least to me, is a continuous exploration of the unknown. — Eva Vertes

Then our crime's worse than a murderer's. His act puts him outside the law, but keeps the law intact. Ours would weaken the law. — Walter Van Tilburg Clark

There is no end to the promotion. There is no end to the possibilities. You can continue to promote a book for years, literally. — Dani Shapiro

My grandfather was an illegal immigrant for the 60 or so years he was in the United States. I had another great-great-grandmother on my mom's side who snuck in in a suitcase. — James Altucher

In the constant pursuit of perfection, junk food will always be a rather painful stumbling block — C.S. Woolley

People say life begins at conception, I say life began about a billion years ago and it's a continuous process. — George Carlin