Orlando Figes Quotes
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Orlando Figes Quotes & Sayings
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It was great to watch her spin out of control because it makes the average person feel better.
— Curtis Jackson
Valley of the Shadow of Death (1855)
— Orlando Figes
An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.
— A.J. Liebling
The worse the coming future, the more it should motivate its opponents.
— Leonard Peikoff
Lenin was always prone to overestimate the physical danger to himself: in this respect he was something of a coward.
— Orlando Figes
It was not Marxism that made Lenin a revolutionary but Lenin who made Marxism revolutionary.
— Orlando Figes
Whereas land reform was the first act of the Bolsheviks, it was the last act of the Whites: that, in a peasant country, says it all.
— Orlando Figes
For the Romanov regime fell under the weight of its own internal contradictions. It was not overthrown.
— Orlando Figes
The word 'soviet' means 'council' in Russian (there was nothing particularly Communist about it until after 1917).
— Orlando Figes
When your parents are dead your own death faces you.
— Lucia Berlin