“Gaiety is the most outstanding feature of the Soviet Union.”
Joseph Stalin
“Yet what are all such gaieties to me whose thoughts are full of indices and surds?”
Lewis Carroll
“Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]”
Chamfort
“There are still parts of Wales where the only concession to gaiety is a striped shroud.”
Gwyn Thomas
“If the Soviet Union can give up the Brezhnev Doctrine for the Sinatra Doctrine, the United States can give up the James Monroe Doctrine for the Marilyn Monroe Doctrine: Let's all go to bed wearing the perfume we like best.”
Carlos Fuentes
“What we asked for were weapons so that we could defend ourselves -- that's what we asked of the Soviet Union, of the socialist countries of Eastern Europe, of the Algerians, of the Vietnamese; and that's what we received so that we could arm the Nicaraguan people and defend ourselves in that war imposed on us by Ronald Reagan's Administration over a number of years.”
Daniel Ortega
“What do you gain, Soviet Union, from this miserable policy? Where is your decency? Would it be a disgrace for you to give up this battle?”
Golda Meir
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