It is difficult to violently suppress people in the long run, as the example of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries has shown.
From its earliest days in the nineteenth century, and until the Holocaust, the Orthodox rabbinate in eastern Europe was not enthusiastic about the Zionist movement, which at the time was led by irreligious Jews.
I remarked constantly, just at sunset, in these latitudes, that the eastern horizon was brilliantly illuminated with a kind of mock sunset. This in a short time disappeared, to be soon succeeded by another similar in character, but more faint.
Socialism is undoubtedly in the throes of a crisis greater than at any time since 1917. The last half of 1989 saw the dramatic collapse of most of the communist party governments of Eastern Europe.
Everywhere I travel throughout Eastern Washington, I hear from people demanding we do a better job of controlling our borders and reducing illegal immigration.
Anna: How did you get in here? Semyon: There are always open doors, Anna Ivanovna.
Semyon: So, you know where I am... and now I know where you are, Anna Ivanovna.
According to some Eastern religion, there is a belt that goes across the world, and I've heard that Minnesota is right in the heart of this spiritual-creative belt of energy.
I'm of course disillusioned with what has happened to World cinema. Now cinemas in both Eastern and Western Europe are filled with the same blockbusters from Hollywood.
I come from a working class community in eastern Scotland, and I've always been a populist, though not a patronising populist.
What are the odds that a nuclear emergency like the one at Fukushima Dai-ichi could happen in the central or eastern United States? They'd have to be astronomical, right?
Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles.
Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.
One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.
Violent overthrow of the revolution is revolutionary, and compromise with the revolution is revolutionary.
A huge amount of what goes on in the Middle East has to do with people being fed really bad information.
Illiteracy is the innability of a person to learn. It is not all about the innability to read or write as the middle class regards it.
I'm a true centrist: my beliefs put me in the middle... You know what happens to people who drive in the middle of the road? They get run over.
A central claim of the Bush administration's foreign policy is that the spread of democracy in the Middle East is the cure for terrorism.
I was nuts for stuff in the Middle Ages when I was just in the third and fourth grades.
My premise is not to tax to destroy the wealth of the wealthy; it's to increase the wealth of the bottom and the middle class.
