Vladimir Lenin Quotes

From the very beginning of this movement, Scientology has always been a very closeted organization. That aura of secrecy is something that the present-day management continues.

People would meet in darkness behind closed doors. It was almost that they seemed ashamed at what they were doing.

I have to say to the Government that you are not even getting nowhere fast - you are getting nowhere slowly.

At that time [1954], as a result of political events, I was deeply preoccupied by my relations with the Communist Party.

Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or roguery is not far off.

Where two Greeks are gathered together, there will be at least three political parties represented, and possibly more.

I loved the comradeship of the sixties and the seventies, and I still maintain friendships with the people I worked with then - the ones that are still alive. That's one of the great gifts of our political movements, great friendships . . . and also a few enmities.

The China of the 1970s was a communist dictatorship. The China of the twenty-first century is a one-party state without a firm ideological foundation, more similar to Mexico under the PRI than Russia under Stalin. But the measurement of the political and the economic evolution has not yet been completed, and is one of the weak points of the system.

We see pluralism: We can see that there are different ideological and political positions in Russia. If the authoritarianism finally ends, we will have real competition.

It is in the nature of all party systems that the authentically political talents can assert themselves only in rare cases, and it is even rarer that the specifically political qualifications survive the petty maneuvers of party politics with its demands for plain salesmanship.

In Russia, people suffer from the stillness of time.

If Hillary Clinton is president of the United States, nothing is going to happen. It's just going to be talk.

Both political parties have a richly vested interest in corporate corruption.

There are currently more political parties in Iraq than unbombed buildings to hold them.

Political men, like goats, usually thrive best among inequalities.

What is a political party but a conspiracy?

If you begin by saying, 'Thou shalt not lie,' there is no longer any possibility of political action.

We must consider not only why the classical theory of democracy appears to be in contradiction with the observed practice, but also why the many different responses to this observation, though mutually incompatible, all share the belief that democracy is the best form of political organization.

The convention is the voice, the bone and the sinews of a political party-and sometimes it even nominates an Abraham Lincoln.

Triangulation is not a strategy that will move America forward.

Unless you move, the place where you are is the place where you will always be.

Political organizations are formed to keep the powerful in power.

I do not even know where Bill Clinton delivered his speech and I know nothing about any funds. Both parties simply use it as a tool in their internal political contention, and I am sure it is a bad thing. But again, we welcome the fact that somebody expresses readiness to work with Russia whatever the name of that person.

Change or stagnate. Keep moving or die.

Every party and every movement tends to need a hero.