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"I have never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back."

    Zsa Zsa Gabor

"We cannot teach people anything, we can only help them discover it."

Galileo

"There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group, there is less competition there."

 Indira Gandhi

"In the midst of dying, life continues; in all untruth, truth survives; in the midst of the dark, the light lasts. There is an order in the universe, an unchangeable law governs everything, and all beings."

"I reject violence, because the good it appears to do is only temporary."

"Victory gained by violence is tantamount to defeat."

"Was man mit Gewalt gewinnt, kann man nur mit Gewalt behalten."

"If everybody acted in accordance with the principle 'an eye for an eye", half of humanity would be blind."

"The only devils in this world are those running around in our own hearts, and that is where all our battles should be fought."

"I repudiate this law and regard it as my sacred duty to break the mournful monotony of compulsory peace that is choking the heart of the nation for want of a free vent." challenging the government monopoly on salt production

"My work will be finished if I succeed in carrying conviction to the human family that every man or woman, however weak in body, is the guardian of his or her self-respect and liberty. This defence avails, though the whole world may be against that individual resister."

"If we are to reach real peace in this word and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with children; and if they will grow up in their natural innocence, we won't have to struggle; we won't have to pass fruitless idle resolutions, but we shall go from love to love and peace to peace, until at last all the corners of the world are covered with the peace and love for thick consciously or unconsciously the whole world is hungering."

"Courage has never been known to be a matter of muscle; it is a matter of the heart. The toughest muscle has been known to tremble before an imaginary fear. It was the heart that set the muscle a-trembling."

"There are seven things that will destroy us: Wealth without work; Pleasure without conscience; Knowledge without character; Religion without sacrifice; Politics without principle; Science without humanity; Business without ethics."

 Mahatma Gandhi

"The French will only be united under a threat of danger. Nobody can simply bring together a country that has 265 kinds of cheese."

"There can be no power without mystery. There must always be a 'something' which others cannot altogether fathom, which puzzles them, stirs them, and rivets their attention.... Nothing more enhances authority than silence. It is the crowning virtue of the strong, the refuge of the weak, the modesty of the proud, the pride of the humble, the prudence of the wise, and the sense of fools."

Charles de Gaulle

"Now the game is clear: there is no longer any possibility of an alliance with the Anglo Saxons. We can see the next war panning out: Europe against America. We'll be reconciled with the Fritzes [Germans]."

"Die englische Sprache ist wie meine Frau. Ich liebe sie, aber ich beherrsche sie nicht."

 Hans-Dietrich Genscher

"The ablest brains did not climb to the top of the stairs .. Seniority and Society were the dominant factors in army promotion. Deportment counted a great deal. Brains came a bad fourth ... The only exceptions were to be found in the Dominion forces." (of the officer class in WWI.)

"If you want to baste an Irishman, you can easily get an Irishman to turn the spit."

"~We must remember it was not a Nobel Prize for Economics."

"We still represent that country, but I'm not sure about the name." 10/12/91.

"The ability to learn faster than your competitors may be the only sustainable competitive advantage."

Arie de Geus

"Look over your shoulder now and then to be sure someone's following you."

Henry Gilmer

"We have no opinion on Arab-Arab conflicts, such as your border disagreement with Kuwait." 25.07.1990 to Saddam Hussein

US Ambassador April Glaspie

"The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country." -- Hermann Goering, at the Nuremberg trials

"Das Denken ist zwar allen Menschen erlaubt, aber vielen bleibt es erspart."

 Kurt Goetz

"What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others." Rites of Passage

William Golding

"Man muß oft etwas Tolles unternehmen. um wieder eine zeitlang leben zu können."

"Da stehe ich nun ich armer Tor, und bin so klug wie nie zuvor."

"Blut ist ein ganz besonderer Saft."

"Ein volkommener Widerspruch bleibt gleich geheimnisvoll für Kluge wie für Toren."

"Einer neuen Wahrheit ist nichts schädlicher als ein alter Irrtum."

"The right man is the one who seizes the moment."

 Goethe

"We will have to carry out profound transformations in the economy and in the entire system of social relations." 1984.

"There is no alternative" 3 months before Chernenko's death, on the inevitability of reforms in the fields of manufacturing and technology.

"The struggle against the nuclear danger and the arms race ... will remain in future the main trend of the party's activity in the world arena. There is no alternative ... The present-day world has become too small for wars and policies of force ... it is in fact impossible to win the arms race ... it is essential above all to reduce considerably the level of military confrontation. [Real security] is guaranteed not by the highest possible but by the lowest possible level of the strategic balance." From the 25 Feb 86 address to the XXVI CPSU Congress.

"Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organisation cannot live a full-blooded life." 27.02.1986

"No party has a monopoly over what is right." 27.02.1986

"It is sometimes said that face-to-face you don't see the other person's face." 1986 after second summit meeting with Reagan.

"Only socialism would put up with it for so long. Capitalism would have gone bankrupt years ago." 23.03.1987 TV interview.

"You say that every time we meet." (to Reagan's 'proverai no doverai' trust yet verify) 08.12.1987

"Let us go forward towards a new world of peaceful international relations." 07.12.1988 announcing 500 000 tps cut over 2 yrs

"We need the free competition of minds." 1988 to Central Committee.

"Perestroika is a thorough renewal of every aspect of Soviet life .. in its crucial aspect - economic, social, political and moral." from Perestroika, 1988.

"The world does not consist of two mutually exclusive civilisations."

"I am going to do something terrible to you, I am taking away your enemy."

"We no longer think we are always right. We have now decided, firmly and unequivocally, to base our policy on the principle of freedom of choice." (1989)

"Let us consign the Cold War to oblivion." 1989

"We will see to it that no harm comes to the GDR." 1989

"Wer zu spät kommt, den bestraft das Leben / We must heed the impulses of the times. Those who delay are punished by life itself." (08.10.1989 to Honecker)

"Nothing is eternal in this world." Autumn, 1989.

"At a time of tumultuous change we have to remain confident and look to the positive results, and decide which walls should be destroyed and which should be built."

"If we begin to divide up, I'll give it to you bluntly: we'll end up in such a civil war, in such bloody carnage that we won't be able to crawl out of it." (1990)

"So, shall we break the union because of sausage?" 1990

"We have embarked on this path and I am the one who chose it. My personal fate is linked to this choice." 1990.

"I don't think anyone in my position would quit. It would be cowardice." 1990.

"It is dangerous to play now. We must rise above all these political ambitions and sympathies." 1991, urging strikers to go back to work.

"I am the centre." After putsch, 8/91.
"To have resigned now would be immoral."

"Disintegration [of the Soviet Union] is fraught with the danger of inter-ethnic, inter-republican clashes, even wars. It would be a catastrophe for the whole international community."

"I am ready to drop everything I am doing and resume an active role in political life if the people of this country call on me to do so." (paraphrased from Die Zeit, 3/93)

 Mikhail Gorbachev

"Mix a little mystery with everything, for mystery arouses veneration."

Baltasar Gracián

Apocryphal response to news yobbo : "How old Cary Grant?" "OLD CARY GRANT FINE STOP HOW YOU?"

 Cary Grant

"People do not follow uncommitted leaders. Commitment can be displayed in a full range of matters to include the work hours you choose to maintain, how you work to improve your abilities, or what you do for your fellow workers at personal sacrifice."

Stephen Gregg Chairman and CEO of Ethix Corp.

"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take."

Wayne Gretzky

"The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime." 03.08.1914, UK Foreign Secretary

Sir Edward Grey

"There's a lot of romantic bullshit about the Secret Service. And they're still living off their finest hour - the Kennedy assassination when they protected Lyndon Johnson and Jacqueline Kennedy, who weren't the targets anyway, while the president got killed. The most dangerous thing about it is that if you didn't know, you might even feel safe with those guys around. The truth is that the Secret Service is the worst, most inefficient, badly run, highly political outfit in the United States government." former Director of the White House Military Office Breaking Cover (1980)

Bill Gulley