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I have equal contempt for both left and right radicals.


Aleksandr Lebed

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To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all
KARL KRAUS In order to build basic democracy here we'll need lives of two generations - at least forty years.
ALEKSANDR LEBED I'm saying that more than a hundred weapons out of the supposed number of 250 are not under the cont...
ALEKSANDR LEBED I mean that at least 80% of the Russian people feel destitute. It's the people who had their past an...
ALEKSANDR LEBED I counted on sixty days only, but I held out for 133. I didn't go into power, but to get power I bor...
ALEKSANDR LEBED I am a Soviet man, and Yeltsin is a Soviet man - maybe our grandchildren will be different.
ALEKSANDR LEBED For 73 years a totalitarian regime ruled the country. Totalitarian regime.
ALEKSANDR LEBED First of all I would make about 80% of the people law-abiding citizens again. The policy which is ca...
ALEKSANDR LEBED As I understand I took most so-called democratic states about 200 years on average to build their de...
ALEKSANDR LEBED And this system sorted out the Chechen war in just 20 days. This way, I used the President's power, ...
ALEKSANDR LEBED I mean that at least 80% of the Russian people feel destitute. It's the people who had their pas...
ALEKSANDR LEBED You must go deeper into Russia - 150 kilometres from Moscow or more, and look there. The kids are fe...
ALEKSANDR LEBED There is no reason why I should call myself a democrat.
ALEKSANDR LEBED In order to build basic democracy here we'll need lives of two generations - at least forty year...
ALEKSANDR LEBED I counted on sixty days only, but I held out for 133. I didn't go into power, but to get power I...
ALEKSANDR LEBED And this system sorted out the Chechen war in just 20 days. This way, I used the President's pow...
ALEKSANDR LEBED Oscar Wilde said the rich and the poor are equal - they can both sleep under the bridge. Right? Do t...
AL LEWIS What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my con...
JOSEPH PRIESTLEY What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my conte...
JOSEPH PRIESTLEY For every right ACTION, there is equal right OPPORTUNITY
MINA TADROS The jury had down right contempt for punk rock grass roots ethics.
JELLO BIAFRA For polyatomic free radicals and ions, one is dependent both for the ground states and the excited s...
GERHARD HERZBERG And so I have to live. Because we live for more than just ourselves, Most of the time we live for ot...
THRITY UMRIGAR Men and women are like right and left hands; it doesn't make sense not to use both.
JEANNETTE RANKIN I am a men's liberationist (or "masculist") when men's liberation is defined as equal opportunity an...
WARREN FARRELL I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.
WINSTON CHURCHILL Two rights don't equal a left.
ROALD DAHL To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his right and left hand. He uses both.
ST. CATHERINE OF SIENA I have two doctors - my left leg and my right leg
G. M. TREVELYAN Left, right, left, right, left, lef-ah fuck I tripped again…
FVZZBALL The political left and right spend more time arguing over who is right and wrong than they do fixing...
TRAVIS J HEDRICK They had two pots left, and they said, 'We'll let you have both of these for $7,'
PAT ALLEN Carmen and I both draw - we collaborate on an equal level on anything artistic,
MILLA JOVOVICH Contempt: How the Right is Wronging American Justice.
CATHERINE CRIER Men and women are like right and left hands; it doesn't make sense not to use both.
JEANNETTE RANKIN The equal right of all men to the use of land is as clear as their equal right to breathe the air--...
HENRY GEORGE The mandate for equal opportunity doesn't dictate disregard for the differences in candidates' quali...
TIM III ELLIS I really like playing for my community, and I don't think I could have left. I think it was a great ...
CHELSEY JONES There are plenty of right-wing radicals in Israel with weapons, and the Arab communities are vulnera...
AZMI BISHARA The U.S. has found peace with India and Pakistan, both of whom acquired nuclear power status through...
WOLFGANG GERHARDT I honestly do not understand this right wing or left wing business. A bird cannot fly without the su...
BRANDON CHRISTOPHER The Right's view of government and the Left's view of big business are both correct.
ROBERT ANTON WILSON The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt.
H. L. MENCKEN I met the Radicals and we liked each other reciprocally.
EMMA BONINO I don't think of bouncing between acting and singing as a transition but rather as an expansion....
RYAN MCCARTAN I have too many doubts about his commitment to nondiscrimination, the right of privacy and equal pro...
BARBARA MIKULSKI You have two hemispheres in your brain - a left and a right side. The left side controls the right s...
BILL LEE Remorse for what? You people have done everything in the world to me. Doesn't that give me equal rig...
CHARLES MANSON We live in a democratic society, and it's our constitutional right to have equal rights,
JOHN SHIELDS Change can take place only when liberal and radical pressures are both strong. Intelligent liberals ...
PHILIP SLATER You have two hemispheres in your brain - a left and a right side. The left side controls the right s...
BILL LEE And I think both the left and the right should celebrate people who have different opinions, and dis...
ROGER EBERT In the 1920s and 1930s, scientists from both the political left and right would not have found the i...
RICHARD DAWKINS We have three games left to get ourselves into form for districts. We have to be on our game both of...
COLE MAXWELL I must tell you that my indignation at and contempt for you and your company are not a bit less than...
LIU XIAOBO I wanted to have people both on the right and the left because I wanted a balanced discussion. I rea...
CLARENCE DAWSON Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise ...
BERTRAND RUSSELL I believe men and women should get equal pay for equal work.
SATYA NADELLA Politicians talk about wage equality, but my father has made it a practice at his company throughout...
IVANKA TRUMP Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis.
JAMES A. GARFIELD What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.
BRENDAN BEHAN Pooh looked at his two paws. He knew that one of them was the right, and he knew that when you had d...
WINNIE THE POOH Remorse for what? You people have done everything in the world to me. Doesn't that give me equal...
CHARLES MANSON While women need the right to birth control and abortion, we also need to be able to have and raise ...
JOHN ASHCROFT disrespect and contempt for our community.
MAXINE WATERS Every movement has radicals. But the important thing is that the radicals are not the leaders.
WARREN FARRELL Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disgu...
BERTRAND RUSSELL They were really overemphasizing jumping on my right hand. They were trying to force me to go left. ...
BRANDON RUSH Their love for me was both a myth and a torture and so I wrecked everything. I hurt them, and I left...
ROBERT GOOLRICK Right where i left you... Not where i left you?
ORLANDO BLOOM I have a stab wound on my left hip and one on my thigh and a slash mark across my right calf. I have...
JONAH LOMU [E]ach person is to have an equal right to the most extensive basic liberty compatible with a simila...
JOHN RAWLS The first putt, for it to break left, was just really weird, ... The second one, coming down the hil...
JOHN DALY We're disappointed tonight, but we're still right there. We're dead even and we've both got some big...
LYNN BURKEY While we use American power to fight hard for democracy against extremism on both left and right, ou...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for w...
JEAN ROSTAND Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for w...
JEAN ROSTAND I'm definitely bummed. It's OK -- I don't go play for them, but I'm still here in Major League camp ...
DAVID AARDSMA One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by differ...
HORACE Usually you end up with neither because there's a political stalemate. This bill includes both the r...
BRIAN ROSMAN Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that y...
EVELYN WAUGH And I spoke out on women's rights, like equal pay for equal work.
KAREN MORLEY As far as pitching goes, it was pretty even. Both guys gave up seven hits and both guys had seven st...
COURTNEY HARRNESS When you listen to stereo on your home system, your both ears hear both speakers. Turn on the left s...
WOODY NORRIS Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those f...
JEAN ROSTAND I stand here today because a judge has found me guilty of contempt of court. The truth of the matter...
ROGER TOUSSAINT Terrorists and totalitarian radicals are lionized as fighters for social justice. Israelis and Ameri...
DAVID HOROWITZ I had to use my left, I was on the left side. I would have gotten in trouble if I shot it with my ri...
LEON FREEMAN I've been so blessed in my life that things have kind of seemed to fall in place for me. I just ...
LYNN ANDERSON She rolls her eyes again, but laughs this time. “You probably have callouses from jerking off too ...
COLLEEN HOOVER We have been on Capitol Hill, sharing our concerns regarding whether we will get equal treatment for...
CHRIS CASTRO We are so cleverly manipulated and influenced by the media and establishments on both the right and ...
JULES CARLYSLE I view them with contempt and that contempt grows stronger every day. I am talking about the United ...
HAROLD PINTER The Republican Party supported the Equal Rights Amendment before the Democratic Party did. But what ...
GLORIA STEINEM It was an evenly played match, with both teams being equal.
COREY PINARD Miss Brodie was easily the equal of both sisters together, she was the square on the hypotenuse of a...
MURIEL SPARK In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives.
HENRY JAMES Right now, I'm very healthy. I have no vices left. Except sugary breakfast cereal. And absinthe,...
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ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, n...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN How can you expect a man who's warm to understand one who's cold?
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN It wasn't poverty that drove me on.
ALEKSANDR KUPRIN Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those ...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN By apeculiar coincidence, the very day when I was giving my address in Washington, ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN In our village, folks say God crumbles up the old moon into stars.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN You can build the Empire State Building. Train the Prussian army. Elevate the hierarchy of a totalit...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN I think, ladies and gentlemen, and I particularly address those of you who have a socialist outlook,...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN That’s all very well, but how many family doctors would you need? It simply doesn’t fit into the...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN You only have power over people as long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN He understood it then. The potential, the utter, unbelievable freedom to be whoever existed undernea...
ALEKSANDR VOINOV Now for the first time you were about to see people who were not your enemies. Now for the first tim...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Here march the eaters of earth,
the swallowers of rain.
J. ALEKSANDR WOOTTON Live in the moment... but don't be led by the moment, or the people who belong to it.
J. ALEKSANDR WOOTTON The great risk of living is that we might not survive it.
J. ALEKSANDR WOOTTON The more stories I study, the more I begin to suspect that there is only one story, and that ...
J. ALEKSANDR WOOTTON