Famous Quotes collected by Long Dien
-Bao Dai (Emperor):
'On the national level, a regime for the country that is in line with the people's will is an important issue. The honor of the fatherland forces us to act in a way that is worthy of being seen by foreign countries as the true face of Vietnam, respecting order and justice. No matter how good political power is, it is meaningless if it does not bring about any results nationwide, the people will still have to go hungry, and not have enough clothes to cover their bodies' (CRVN) page 365)
- Bao Dai (Emperor):
'This orthodox position, perhaps only I feel... Ho Chi Minh was clearly aware of that orthodoxy... he always wanted to wear it on himself, but never had it, although I am not interested in the issue of restoring the throne. (CRVN pages 311 - 324).
-Bao Dai (Emperor) also sacrificed the throne in the hope of joining HCM and the Labor Party to consolidate the unity given by Japan in 1945. He confided:
'I gave them power and stood with their ranks, precisely to contribute to the construction of Vietnam's independence and unity, and to avoid my people from having a civil war. The Viet Minh, because of being lackeys of the Communists, betrayed our hopes'.
- Bao Dai in 1979 Emperor Bao Dai in his lonely and sad life in Paris looked back at his homeland under the red flag with yellow star and he sadly said: 'This is a nation that has been misled by incompetent shepherds'... Ask the Vietnamese people what they have benefited from. They have lost their freedom, and have been sentenced to exile, driven out of their homeland... 'Blood has been shed, mourning has been abundant, 30 years of pain and hatred have deepened the hole... On the moral level, the philosophy of communism is truly toxic, because the communist principle leads to the bankruptcy of the foundation of morality and ethics, which Vietnam has worked hard to build over the past 20 centuries' . (CRVN page 561).
-Bao Dai (Emperor): 'The loneliness of sadness is a haunting image. During that time, my heart constantly beat in unison with the hearts of my fellow countrymen who were living in anxiety and worry. Putting myself in their shoes, all my thoughts were directed towards them, sharing the same prayer and hope . (Paris, July 1979).
-Bao Dai: In the Abdication Declaration , he had the famous saying "I would rather be a citizen of a free country than a king of a ruled country". [i]
" In response to the Committee's call, I am ready to abdicate. Before this decisive moment in the nation's history, unity is life, division is death. I am ready to sacrifice all interests, so that unity can be achieved, and request that the Committee's representative come to Hue soon, to receive the handover. "
“We do not want a foreign army to shed the blood of our subjects. [39] said when refusing Japanese protection against the threat of a Viet Minh coup .
“The so-called Bao Dai solution turned out to be the French solution.”
“It is time to end this fratricidal war and at least restore peace and harmony. [ 1972 speech calling for peace and national harmony in Vietnam]
“Please let me live and die in peace. “
-Ngo Dinh Diem . President of the Republic of Vietnam declared: “We do not reject the principle of free elections to unify the country peacefully and democratically” but “have doubts about the possibility of ensuring the conditions for free elections in the North”.[ii]
- Ngo Dinh Diem :[iii]
The National Army must have an ideal of serving justice, must be composed of strategic, honest, and loving commanders with brave soldiers determined to sacrifice.
The army must demonstrate the Government's policy of serving the people and the noble chivalry of the national soldier .
- Ngo Dinh Diem created the element of "humanity" when he led a "welfare" government to guide the policy of developing people's lives . He solemnly declared: "The government I lead has a sole mission of protecting national independence and improving the lives and happiness of all people."[iv]
- Ngo Dinh Diem : High-ranking American figures who had met and worked with Mr. Diem all acknowledged Mr. Diem's staunchly independent stance. Mr. Diem often reminded American officials that "We do not want to become an American protectorate."[in]
-Ngo Dinh Diem : a letter from Mr. Vo Nhu Nguyen to his friend Hoang Dong Tieu. The letter was dated November 24, 1977. At the end of the letter, there is a passage recounting Mr. Diem confiding to Mr. Nguyen:
“… Uncle Nhu and I have the idea that although the two regions of the National and Communist parties are in conflict, they are both blood relatives, and there must be a fraternal solution to resolve the war, to save lives and property. Then whichever side drags on, in the end, will be dependent on a superpower and the country will be divided, because the superpowers intend to divide everything...."[we]
I Advance, Follow Me!
I Retreat, Kill Me!
I Die, Follow My Will
-Ngo Dinh Diem:
“I advocate spiritually arming the Vietnamese people, clearly distinguishing resistance from communism, advocating anti-feudalism, attacking realism, destroying communism, and building the ideals of Humanity, Community, and Social Progress.” [vii]
“My goal is to establish a social and technical structure suitable to the reality of our country and the strength of our people, to overcome the weaknesses caused by Communism, and from there to industrialize the national economy, that is, to carry out an industrial revolution.”
- “ The purpose of the national revolution is to liberate people. To liberate people, we must liberate them spiritually as well as materially.”
“-My goal is to establish a social and technical structure suitable to the reality of our country and the strength of our people, to overcome the weaknesses caused by Communism, and from there to industrialize the national economy, that is, to carry out an industrial revolution.”
.- “Individual and national success can only be achieved with respect for national discipline. In free countries, such discipline is all the more necessary. (Excerpt from Speech on October 7, 1957)”
- “We fight against the concentration of economic and political power in the hands of a minority, because to exclude the majority is to exclude the hope of continuous and vital progress which can only be realized through the participation of the whole people”.
-“The political liberation that our people are accomplishing in the free South today will lose all meaning if it is not accompanied by economic liberation, especially the liberation of the peasants, the fundamental component of the Nation. (Excerpt from the speech at the inauguration of the Blao National School for the Laity, January 3, 1956);”
"I have firmly decided to initial the agreement on January 23, 1973, in Paris. If necessary, I will do so alone. In that case, I must explain publicly that your government is obstructing peace. The result will be the inevitable and immediate termination of U.S. economic and military aid - and a change in the personnel of your government that is difficult to predict."
-Nguyen Van Thieu
The Paris Agreement was unfair in terms of peace, because North Vietnam had the freedom to develop its economy, had peace, and could send troops and weapons to the South without any reaction from the United States, while South Vietnam was at war. [viii]
Life without freedom is death.
The country remains, everything remains, the country is lost, everything is lost
As long as America provides aid, we will fight communism!
If the United States stops providing aid to us, not in a day, a month, or a year, but in just three hours, we will leave the Independence Palace.
If they (the US) want to assassinate me, it's easy. Then just blame it on the Viet Cong or a coup plot.
They (the United States) stabbed us in the back [
http://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nguy%E1%BB%85n_V%C4%83n_Thi%E1%BB%87u
-Nguyen Van Thieu , President of the Republic of Vietnam, repeatedly strongly reminded the army and people of the South: "When talking to the Viet Cong, you must use daggers, guns and grenades."
“Don't listen to what the communists say, but look closely at what they do.”
-Phan Boi Chau: To conclude the assessment of the Vietnam War, we can use Phan Boi Chau's criticism of Socialism written in 1938 in response to the cruel tricks of the Vietnamese Communist Party that he saw in the 1930s as follows:
“ Calling for class struggle in this country is an extremely stupid thing ! People who are aware of the times would never do such a thing... In the same accident, not joining forces to gradually regain lost rights according to the situation to rebuild the foundation of the Nation, but instead seeking ways to kill each other and divide each other , to reduce the fighting force, is truly a failure!”
... "In short, people took advantage of the Socialist movement to divide the forces in the country, to destroy solidarity and to destroy the national spirit of our people.[ix].”
From the above comments of Phan Boi Chau, it can be seen that the war advocated by the Vietnamese Communists is a form of fratricidal war, weakening the potential and spirit of the Nation and People, causing long-term division among the People.
(Excerpt from CCVN 1945-1975 page 1066 by author Long Dien)
(Excerpt from Phan Boi Chau Complete Works, Volume 4, Thuan Hoa Publishing House, Hue, 1990. In an interview with journalist Maurice Detour, L,Effort newspaper, Hanoi. Trang An newspaper, October 7, 1938 issue. In the book "Vietnamese Communist Crimes" by historian Tran Gia Phung, Non Nuoc Publishing House, Canada 2001, page 30.)
-Ho Chi Minh declared :
The proof is that right after the end of the battle at Dien Bien Phu in 1954, in the victory celebration meeting, Mr. Ho Chi Minh himself declared before the conference "Receiving the directive of the Communist International to solve the revolutionary problem in our country, I have completed the task ..."[x]And it was announced by the Vietnamese government itself.
- Ho Chi Minh said"[xi] A Party; an individual; a nation is great today but will no longer be great tomorrow if it falls into individualism".
-Revolutionary morality does not fall from the sky, it is developed and strengthened through daily struggle and persistent training, just like jade becomes brighter the more it is polished, gold becomes purer the more it is refined. (Remember that the Communist Party of Vietnam always says one thing and does another)
- Ho Chi Minh :
“ No matter what position we hold or what job we do, we are all servants of the people – The food we eat, the clothes we wear, the materials we use are all the sweat and tears of the people – Therefore, we must compensate the people properly… ”
-Ho Chi Minh . Ho Chi Minh's most shocking statement was "It is better to smell Western shit for a while than to eat Chinese shit for the rest of your life." [Plutôt flair a French-styled cow that brings us all the Chinese cells – Paul Mus, "Vietnam, Society of a Nation" , Paris, Seuil, p. 185].
- Eisenhower was very precise, through his famous quote: “We face a hostile ideology, global in scope, atheistic in nature, brutal in intent and cunning in method...”
-Thomas Jefferson:
"Every Generation needs a New Revolution".
- Boris Yeltsin said about Mr. Ho : "He was involved in many of the most important events of the country, causing the biggest mistakes! And one of those mistakes was "Selling the country and causing unjust war". [xii]
- Mao Zedong :
“We must become a leading nation in cultural, scientific, technological and industrial development…It is unacceptable that after a few decades, we have not yet become the number one power in the world.”
This is Mao's greatest ideological ambition (LD)[xiii]
-MAO ZEDONG once made a bold statement: “The Chinese people have more than six hundred million. I am willing to sacrifice half of that number to plant the red flag all over the world.”[xiv]
-Mao Zedong also affirmed in the meeting of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, August 1965:
“We must win Southeast Asia, including southern Vietnam, Thailand, Burma, Malaysia and Singapore… A region like Southeast Asia is very rich, there are many minerals there… worth the expense needed to conquer… After winning Southeast Asia, we can strengthen our strength in this region, then we will have the strength to confront the Soviet-Eastern European bloc, the East wind will blow away the West wind…”
(Excerpt from Truth Publishing House - Publishing house of the Propaganda Department of the Communist Party of Vietnam)
-Mao Zedong :
"When the world is in chaos, China benefits."[xv] It means that if friends fight all over the world, and there is great chaos, then only China can escape and enjoy the great chaos.
- Nixon said: 'The Army of the Republic of Vietnam and the entire people of South Vietnam won a glorious victory in the Vietnam War, but lost shamefully in peace because of the irresponsible attitude of some congressmen and senators in the US Congress, the media, the Western and American intellectual class, as well as the anti-war movement everywhere' . (No more Vietnams).
-Ronald Reagan:
ENDING THE VIETNAM WAR IS NOT SIMPLY A MEANING OF WITHDRAWING TROOPS HOME. BECAUSE THE PRICE TO PAY FOR THAT KIND OF PEACE IS A THOUSAND YEARS OF DARKNESS FOR THE GENERATION BORN IN VIETNAM AFTER THAT.[xvi]
- Abraham Lincoln When signing the Emancipation Proclamation, the President of the United States said: "I never, in my life, felt more certain that I was doing right, than I do in signing this paper."
- Brezhnev once said to his son: "What the hell is communism? It's all empty words to deceive the people. " [xvii]
- Gorbachev , the current General Secretary of the party, clearly realized that lies could not last forever with the regime, which is why he later declared: "I have spent more than half of my life fighting for the communist ideal; but today I have to sadly say: Communists only know how to propagate and lie."
-De Gaulle : "All ideologies will disappear, only the nation remains"[xviii]
-Le Duan , General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam: "We fought the US for the Soviet Union, for China, for the socialist countries and for all of humanity . "
-Le Duan (1975 declaration): “We will catch up with Japan in 15, 20 years and our people will walk on golden carpets.” [xix]
- Truong Chinh (Dang Xuan Khu) denounced his parents to death. Thanks to that, he also had a couplet engraved on his stele for a thousand years:[xx]
"Struggle with parents, worship Marx and Lenin, it's a shame that the world despises the Dang family!
Harming scholars and farmers, distorting culture, the book records that the person named Khu is guilty of that crime!
-Dao Duy Anh Excerpt from Dao Duy Anh's dictionary
"A Nationalist is someone who puts the country on the highest level, highest meaning above all things, including religion, political parties and even oneself."
Queen Nam Phuong:
“Since March 1945, Vietnam has been freed from French domination, but because of the greed of a minority of French colonialists with the support of the British Royal Army, the blood of the Vietnamese people continues to flow on a land that has already suffered too much… On behalf of tens of millions of Vietnamese women, I appeal to all my friends and friends of Vietnam to defend freedom…”.[xxi]
- Duong Quynh Hoa : Previously, she answered an interview with CBS America: "During the war, we lived in the hearts of the people. Today, when power is in the hands of the Party, the Party considers the people as enemies . "[xxii]
- Duong Quynh Hoa : When interviewed about Vietnamese leaders, she (Duong Quynh Hoa) coldly replied: "They are stupid and ignorant people because they are communists" .
- Duong Quynh Hoa In the late 1970s, she spoke frankly and openly to Mr. Nguyen Huu Tho (President of the National Liberation Front): “You and I are just puppets, cheap ornaments. We cannot serve a regime that lacks democracy and rules like this.”
- Duong Quynh Hoa said when commenting on the fall of the Berlin Wall: "This is the end of a great illusion".
- The Vietnamese communist Foreign Ministry bitterly confessed: “The Chinese authorities, based on national interests, helped Vietnam when the Vietnamese people fought against the US, but also based on national interests, they did not want Vietnam to defeat the US and become strong, but only wanted Vietnam to be weak and dependent on China… They took advantage of the blood of the Vietnamese people to trade with the US… They wanted to divide Vietnam from the Soviet Union and other socialist countries” .[xxiii]
- Hitler : "No one questions whether the winner tells the truth or not " - that is the wisdom of a robber.
"The victor will never be asked if he told the truth." - Hitler
"It is not truth that matters, but victory" - Hitler
- Phan Boi Chau
LIVING
Why live a miserable life, standing in the sky?
Who lives to see the world as a tiger? Who
lives to be a slave to others?
Who lives to be stupid and laugh at them?
Living thinking about fame, not the country.
Living worrying about wealth and honor, not life,
If you live like that, you shouldn't live!
Why live a miserable life, standing in the sky?
DEATH
"Die for the country, die for the people,
Die as a man to pay off his debt to the world.
Die in the Eastern Zhou period, the soul is lost,
Die like the Western Han when the three kingdoms were divided.
Die like Hung Dao, the soul becomes a saint,
Die like Trung Vuong, the soul becomes a god.
Die like Tay Ho, the name is not dead,
Die for the country, die for the people."
(Sao Nam Phan Boi Chau)
- Voltaire , the French philosopher ( *) of the Enlightenment era in the 18th century, said: “I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. ”
-Wu Qi , a famous general during the Spring and Autumn Period and Warring States Period in China, in the 3rd century BC, said:
“In the warring states of the world, five victories bring disaster, four victories bring misery, three victories make a hegemon, two victories make a king, one victory makes an emperor. Those who are often victorious gain the world very few, but lose many.”
- Sun Tzu said:
- A prolonged military campaign that was beneficial to the country has never happened before!" (Sun Wu's French War - Translated by Ngo Van Trien - page 41 and page 269).
"The country is lost, but not knowing is ignorance; knowing but not taking care, is disloyal; taking care, but not risking one's life is incoherent."
- To Huu
"Kill, kill again, hands never rest,
For the fields to be fertile, taxes to be paid quickly"
- Talleyrand famously said, " Nations have no permanent friends or enemies, only permanent interests."
-Before his death , Nguyen Huu Tho wrote a poem to Mr. Tran Buu Kiem as follows:
“Seeing mistakes but not being able to correct them. Seeing crimes but not being able to avoid them. All must bow their heads and obey the party’s orders.”
-Nguyen Huu Tho wrote a will to his son, Nguyen Huu Phuoc, which included the following passage: 'The lesson of failure in my revolutionary life is the lesson of choosing the wrong communist ideal and communism, and my biggest mistake was voluntarily becoming a member of the Communist Party of Vietnam. But the most condemnable thing is my father's blind and cowardly obedience to the inhumane and unjust orders of the autocratic and dictatorial leadership group that has lost all national sentiment'
- Nguyen Ho : former Chairman of the Vietnam Fatherland Front in Ho Chi Minh City, called for abandonment of communism and was arrested, placed under house arrest and monitored until his death.
“I have been a revolutionary for over 56 years. My family has two martyrs: Nguyen Van Dao (biological brother) - Colonel of the Vietnam People's Army - sacrificed on January 9, 1966 in the first bombing attack of the American invaders on Vietnam (on Cu Chi); Tran Thi Thiet (my wife) - a Saigon women's cadre - was arrested and beaten to death at the General Police Department during Tet Mau Than (1968), but I must admit that we chose the wrong ideal: communism.
Because during more than 60 years on the communist revolutionary path, the Vietnamese people have suffered enormous sacrifices, but in the end they have gained nothing, the country is still poor and backward, the people do not have prosperity, happiness, democracy or freedom. That is a disgrace .[xxiv]
- Nelson Mandela , once shared:
'Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it'. Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/vietnamese/forum/2009/07/090720_whoishuinchina.shtml
Martin Luther King - “He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it” Given by Martin Luther King
- Boris Yeltsin , former Politburo member, former President, in his inaugural speech as president for the first term, he declared:
« Russia at the beginning of the 20th century was on the same train as the world. Russia was not the leader, but it was in the first class. Then Russia thought it could have its own separate path of development, and separated from the train. Unexpectedly, the world train kept moving, while Russia stood still. Today, Russia is half a century behind the advanced countries in the world. »
http://newsforums.bbc.co.uk/ws/vi/thread.jspa?sortBy=1&forumID=9495&start=15&tstart=0#paginator But Lenin said " The only person who makes no mistakes is the one who does nothing".
- Playwright Luu Quang Vu : " Our country has gone through the Stone Age, the Bronze Age, now our country is living in the FAKE AGE"
-Reporter: You lived through two dictatorships, first Ngo Dinh Diem in the 50s and 60s, then the communist dictatorship of North Vietnam. Both regimes imprisoned you, so which one was worse?
- Thich Quang Do (monk): Both were terrible. But the communists were more difficult to fight against. While Ngo Dinh Diem let us be free in the temples without interference, only caring about what we did in society, the communists infiltrated and attacked deeply into the Buddhist community.
http://thongtinberlin.de/chinhtri/baoczechphongvanhoathuognthichquangdo.htm
- Benedict XVI , the Pope is still there, in his work " Salt of the World ".
(Benedicto=Benedict XVI's birth name is Joseph Alois Ratzinger .)
" The Church is not allowed to follow the times. The Church must speak out about the evils and dangers of the times. It must remind the consciences of those in power, intellectuals, and those who are indifferent and narrow-minded about the sufferings of the times....
... Silence is not the first duty of a citizen, and personally I am terrified of a Bishop who is content with his lot, only concerned with avoiding trouble and covering up conflicts.
http://thongtinberlin.de/congdong/xinlinhmucnguyenngoclongtochucthanhlechogiaoxutamtoa.htm
-Nguyen Hien Le , I still remember the saying " Do what you can do today " and Americans also have a similar saying " Do not put off until tomorrow what you can do today "
- Martin Luther King , a pastor who advocated for the equality of ethnic minorities, opened his eloquent speech on August 28, 1963 with the immortal words: “ I have a dream… that all men are created equal…” Pastor King’s speech not only had a great influence across America but also inspired all efforts to fight for equal rights for later human rights activists. Pastor King’s dream became a reality when the US government approved the Civil Rights Act on July 2, 1964, opening a new page in the history of respecting the rights of people of color in American history.[xxv]
- Dalai Lama (1935 – ), Great Monk, spiritual leader of Tibet.
“Whatever you find most difficult to do, do it with all your heart.”
- Pope John Paul II also uttered an immortal saying when the General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party Brezhnev was about to send the Red Army to Poland to crush the Solidarity Union, " If the Soviet Union marches into Poland, I will take off my papal robes and return to Poland to fight to protect my homeland. " Thanks to the brave Pope's strong words, Brezhnev gave up his intention to invade.
-Nguyen Tan Dung . Nguyen Tan Dung's most humorous statement is: " I am determined and resolute in fighting corruption. If I cannot fight corruption, I will resign immediately" . Because Dung is the most corrupt person in Vietnam today.
- Ngo Dinh Nhu (Advisor) said at a meeting of the General Youth Union of Civil Defense in October 1962 at the Examination Training Center, that "If this government is overthrown by foreigners and their lackeys, then 12 years later (ie 1975) the Republic of Vietnam will fall into the hands of the communists."
- Jim Costa (1952 – ), California State Representative
“The civil rights movement had many victories, but Rosa Parks is always remembered as a catalyst in the fight for civil rights.”
- Tran Binh Trong was captured alive by the Yuan army and also uttered an immortal saying when the Yuan army tried to persuade him to surrender, "I would rather be a ghost in the South than a king in the North."
-Nguyen Thai Hoc , founder of the Vietnam Nationalist Party in 1927. His immortal saying contains a bit of bitterness: " Not being successful is also being human."
-With the momentum of the Mongol army, King Thanh Tong intended to surrender to the enemy and Tran Hung Dao boldly declared, " If Your Majesty wants to surrender, please behead me first!"
- Blacky young activist in Vietnam
"With the Red Flag with Yellow Star, there will never be Independence, Freedom and Happiness"
http://www.haylentieng.org/ArticleDetial-185-Concodokhongcohanhphucdoclap.htm
- 18th century French philosopher Voltaire said: " Freedom of Speech is the soul of all Freedom".
- Tran Dan during the Nhan Van Giai Pham period wrote a poem with the line " From ancient times until now, people still lack trust in others". So he was beaten, because the word "people" was only used to refer to Ho Chi Minh!
http://www.talawas.org/talaDB/showFile.php?res=10124&rb=0501
-Nguyen Duc Tung : The recent Vietnam War was called by many different names. In my opinion, it was a civil war. A fratricidal war, whose consequences for future generations were truly enormous .
-LAWYER NGUYEN MANH TUONG (1909-1997)[XXVI]
All members of the Communist Party, from the President to the lowest cadre, are never allowed to express an opinion other than that of the Party. So they let me starve... Despite the economic reforms underway and the emergence of a commercial class capable of throwing money out the window, there is still a miserable majority. (Interview with the Christian Science Monitor, April 27, 1995)
- German Chancellor Angela Merkel said : ''Communism has created deceitful people!''
-Mikhail Gorbachev : "I have spent more than half of my life fighting for the communist ideal, but today I have to sadly say that "communists only know how to propagate and lie" .
Ho Chi Minh's "National Unity Platform" drafted by the Communist Party of Vietnam made Stalin angry: that is nationalism, not communism!
-http://www.huyenthoai.org/DanhNgon.html
- President Abraham Lincoln : You can fool some of the people all the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time .
- Russian writer Alexandre Soljenitsym : When we see a Communist lying, we must stand up and tell him he is lying. If we do not have the courage to tell him he is lying, we must stand up and leave, not stay and listen to his lies. If we do not have the courage to leave, but stay and listen, we will not repeat his lies to others.
- German Chancellor Angela Merkel : The communists make the people deceitful .
- Russia President Boris Yeltsin : Communists are incurable, they must be eradicated .
- Buddha (563BC-483BC) : Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth .
- Dalai Lama : Communism is a weed that grows on the ruins of war, a poisonous insect that thrives on the garbage of life.
- Soviet Secretary General Mr. Mikhail Gorbachev : I have devoted half of my life for communism . Today, I am sad to say that: The communist Party only spreads propaganda and decieves .
- Yugoslavia Secretary General Milovan Djilas : At 20, if you are not a communist, you are heartless, At 40, if you don't abandon communism, you are brainless. At 20, if you are not a communist, you are heartless, At 40, if you don't abandon communism, you are brainless.
- President Nguyen Van Thieu : Don't listen to the communists , but take a good look at what they have done .
- President Ronald Reagan : How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin. How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin . How do you tell an anti- communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin .
General Sheridan : The only good communist is a dead communist . -Ronald Reagan If we love our country , we should also love our countrymen.
- Vladimir Putin Russia President : He who believes in communism has no brain , He who follows the communism has no heart. He who believes in communism has no brain , He who follows the communism has no heart .
-Benjamin Barber
"The Constitution does not create democracy, but democracy creates the Constitution."
- William C. Westmoreland :
On behalf of the United States Armed Forces, I would like to apologize to the veterans of the South Vietnamese Armed Forces for abandoning you guys .
— William Shakespeare How to get people into war?
Of course, ordinary people do not want war, but after all, it is the national leaders who decide the policies, and they can easily pull the people along, whether it is a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, a parliamentary system, or a communist dictatorship. Whether they have a voice or not, the people will always be pulled along by the leaders. This is very easy.
— Hermann Goering , the second in command after Hitler, speaking at the Nurenberg International Tribunal How to Treat Intellectuals in the Age of Science and Technology
The intelligentsia, despised and reduced to menial tasks, is unable to contribute the full potential and knowledge that it only hopes to be allowed to contribute to the nation. It is criticized and condemned because of its bourgeois and petty bourgeois origins, because of its past connections, because it refuses to abandon its critical and democratic tendencies .
— Nguyen Manh Tuong
What spirit do Eastern people lack?
For centuries the Orientals have been accustomed to living in a boiler where the rulers hold the heat and the pressure, and have succeeded in turning the people into people without willpower, into apathetic and indifferent people towards everything and everyone. The sense of responsibility is the greatest deficiency among the masses.
— Nguyen Manh Tuong, lawyer
Imagine if the entire working structure in Vietnam stopped corruption completely, no corruption, no bribery, it would not work. It is like oil lubricating a machine, if the oil runs out, the machine will burn.
-Martin Luther King:
Our lives begin to end when we become silent about the things we should speak up about.
- Ho Chi Minh
An ignorant nation is a weak nation!
- George Orwell (1903-1950)
“In an age of universal deception, speaking the truth becomes a revolutionary act.”
- Francois Mitterand Former President of France :
— Do Lai Thuy :
Confucianism only truly declined when it was no longer a means of livelihood, that is, when people abolished the imperial examination system, stopped appointing Confucian scholars as mandarins (in the South since 1915, in the North since 1917, in the Central region since 1919), and replaced it with a Western-style education system.
— Benjamin Barber:
Democracy requires effective citizens, ordinary men and women doing extraordinary things consistently and regularly.
The Constitution does not create democracy.
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Remember: The Constitution does not create democracy, democracy creates the Constitution.
- Albert Camus (1913-1960):
A free press can be good or bad, but it is certain that a press can only be bad without freedom.
— Pastor Martin Niemöller:
When the Nazis rounded up the communists, I did not speak out, because I was not a communist. When they rounded up the trade unionists, I did not speak out, because I was not a trade unionist. When they put the socialists in jail, I did not speak out, because I was not a socialist. When they put the Jews in jail, I did not speak out, because I was not a Jew.
— John Stuart Mill wrote in On Liberty
It is not the violent clash of parts of truth, but the silent suppression of half of it, that is the terrible evil. As long as people are forced to listen to both sides, there is hope; but when people only care about one side, errors coalesce into prejudice, and the truths themselves cease to have the effect of truth, and become exaggerated into falsehood.
— John Stuart Mill wrote in On Liberty
Taking away the right to speak is stealing from humanity.
— Roger Nash Baldwin:
As long as this country has citizens willing to fight for their rights, we can be called a democracy.
— Blogger Gio Wind:
There are not many people like us in Vietnam today, like fish on a chopping board and especially very lonely.
Before, we were revolutionary activists, Viet Cong, and fought on the streets. When we were arrested and imprisoned, the masses protested loudly demanding freedom, but now, society is silent, with almost no reaction.
Before in prison, there was Liberation Radio and the press supporting me, but now it's the opposite.
— Dao Hieu - interviewed by BBC about the forced removal of the "left-wing" website
If everyone is neutral, then no one can guarantee the existence of neutrality.
— Václav Havel:
I once asked a friend, a writer and a wonderful person, to take up a political office. He refused, saying that someone had to be neutral. I replied: If everyone talked like you, it would be very likely that no one would be neutral, because there would be no one left to facilitate and guarantee that neutrality.
— Vuong Tri Nhan:
We look at the past with a utilitarian eye. What is beneficial to us, we repeat. What does not seem to be immediately beneficial, we ignore. It is a kind of down-to-earth pragmatism.
— Phan Chu Trinh blamed Phan Boi Chau:
Phan Quan clearly realized that the French were not sincere in civilizing the Southern people, so they had to first find a way to overthrow the French government. To overthrow the French government, the Southern people could not do anything without relying on the power of a strong foreign country. Currently, the only strong country was Japan, which was of the same culture and race, so they asked for help from Japan.
- B. Russel Philosopher :
“Read history to learn about the stupidities of the past, so that one can better bear the stupidities of the present …”
— Dao Trinh Nhat (excerpt from " Japan - 30 Years of Restoration ")
Changing the fate of a nation, of course, must first of all rely on wise and intelligent authorities and knowledgeable scholars acting as pioneers, but it must also rely on the people's spirit and enthusiasm for self-improvement. These are two things needed for progress, they must rely on each other and go together.
— Ha Si Phu (excerpt from " Ideology and intelligence are the foundation of society "):
No, don't talk about history, we must say: this nation did not choose Phan Chu Trinh. Blaming history is irresponsible to ourselves.
Despite his best efforts and concern for the fate of the nation, Phan Chu Trinh still could not escape his lonely fate. If Phan Chu Trinh had also shouted “The rich and powerful, uproot and destroy them”, and “swore to tear the enemy to pieces and drink their blood” (old lyrics of the National Anthem), then “history” would have chosen him.
-Nguyen Minh Chau:
Our greatest sin is to be silent in the face of evil and wickedness. Especially when evil and wickedness are in power.
-Nguyen Van Dai lawyer :
A democratic and civilized regime lost to a totalitarian and backward one-party regime. Evil won. As for the feelings, we are sad and regretful for the Republic of Vietnam regime, because I and many people believe that if on April 30, 1975, the winning side was the Republic of Vietnam, then in the Asian region, Vietnam might only lose to Japan in terms of economy, and would certainly be equal to or better than South Korea in both economy and military.[xxvii]
The important role of the reviewer
Sunday, July 26, 2009
— Milovan Djilas (1911-1995) in "The New Class" (1957)
It cannot be said that the Communists deceived the people, that they deliberately deceived them and then refused to carry them out. The truth is: they could not carry out what they themselves believed so passionately in. Of course they did not admit it, they did not dare to admit it even if they were forced to act in a way that was the exact opposite of what they had sincerely promised. To admit it, they would have to admit, would mean admitting that the revolution was useless.
— Albert Einstein:
Only a life lived for others is worth living!
— Dr. Le Dang Doanh:
Freedom of speech is freedom of speech, but I do not guarantee freedom after speech...
— Fattymonk’s:
Don't be indifferent to the fate of the country, because it is linked to your future and your children's future !
— Professor To Duy Hop:
The Romans have a saying: "History is the teacher of life." The Vietnamese consider "history a trash can to dispose of the past." So, do our children always learn lessons from the trash can?
If a state is strong and confident, then in my opinion it should not be afraid or hesitant to dialogue with all classes of people, even with opinions that are contrary to its own.
— Rosa Luxemburg (1871-1919), founder of the German Communist Party
Freedom reserved for those who support the government, reserved for the members of a party – however numerous – is not Freedom. Freedom must always be the Freedom of the dissidents.
— Former Prime Minister Vo Van Kiet:
Through the years from before the August Revolution to the present day, from the dangerous moments between life and death, to the days of sharing the joys and sorrows of each victory, I have been sheltered and cared for by my compatriots many times, and have witnessed many examples of sacrifice by people of all classes and ages... Unfortunately, in the years that followed, the idea of great solidarity was disregarded, and the class perspective was applied mechanically and one-sidedly...
— Stephen Holmes
Any authority which exercises sufficient power to protect me against the depredations of my neighbour, may also exercise that power to destroy me or to enslave me. This paradox lies at the foundation of the modern theory of the natural state. How can we escape from anarchy without falling into tyranny?
— Claude Audrien Helvétius (1715–1771)
To restrict the freedom of the press is to insult the whole nation. To ban certain books is to declare that the people are either stupid or slaves.
— Ralf Dahrendorf
It takes only six months to organize an election, a year to establish a market economy, and a generation to create a civil society. Without civil society, there can be no democracy.
— Huynh Ba Thanh , late editor-in-chief of Ho Chi Minh City Police newspaper
During the old regime, Saigon's press was mostly opposition. I myself often drew cartoons satirizing Mr. Thieu and called him Sau Theo, but they just laughed. Now all the newspapers belong to the Party. We journalists all follow the Party, flatter the Party to death, but at the slightest provocation, we criticize and censure them. You guys are too much!
— Do Lai Thuy (Vietnamese culture seen from the perspective of a cultured person)
To maintain the stability of the country, Confucianism used every means to force individuals to depend on the community, and officials to depend on the supreme ruler. To do that, the Confucian monarchy used the following two measures: 1) Low salary, heavy allowance (or as today's saying goes, "low salary, high allowance"): Officials mainly lived on allowances, and salaries were only symbolic. 2) Respecting virtue and despising money.
-Truong Hung :
The Party may accuse me of treason. I accept that crime.
But do not infer that betraying the Party is treason and accuse me of being against the country. That is the most terrible insult to every Vietnamese person who still holds pride and anxiously waits for the future of the nation.
— Nguyen Gia Kieng (excerpt from the book The Repentant Fatherland)
Western countries are superior because their culture is healthy, their mentality is correct. Vietnam suffers and is poor because Vietnamese culture is stunted and Vietnamese mentality is sick.
— Nguyen Gia Kieng ( Multi-Party Democracy Group )
Each person has his own way to get around and survive. All are smart, no one is willing to be stupid. The overall result is that the country continues to suffer in dictatorship and backwardness. A NATION OF ALL SMART PEOPLE IS A VERY STUPID NATION. Only those who are willing to accept some foolishness for the country can be considered patriotic.
— Kant - German philosopher
Enlightenment is the emergence from man's self-inflicted immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one's understanding without the guidance of another. This immaturity is self-inflicted if its cause lies not in a lack of understanding but in a lack of resolution and courage. Sapere aude! ["have the courage to know"], have the courage to use your own understanding! is the motto of Enlightenment."
Kant posed four questions and sought to answer them:
1. "What can I know?" – In his Epistemology
2. "What ought I to do?" – In his Ethics
3. "What can I hope for?" – In his Philosophy of Religion
4. "What is man?" – In his Anthropology
— Immanuel Kant - German philosopher
The nature of a true philosopher lies in the fact that he does nothing but exercise his natural powers and abilities, namely through critical investigation.
— Voltaire - French philosopher
Great minds think alike.
— Voltaire - French philosopher
"Twenty large volumes never made a revolution; it was the thirty-cent pamphlets that were truly terrifying. If the Gospels had cost twelve hundred sestertius, Christianity would probably never have spread as it has today."
- Ho Chi Minh :
-I have only one Party: the Vietnamese Party.
-I have only one desire, an utmost desire, which is to make our country completely independent, our people completely free, everyone has food to eat, clothes to wear, and everyone can go to school.
-Nothing is more precious than independence and freedom!
— Fukuzawa Yukichi:
If a nation does not have the spirit of independence and freedom, its patriotism will be vague, shallow, and irresponsible.
— Excerpt from the Declaration of Independence read on September 2, 1945
All men are created equal. They are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness .
Letter from Nguyen Ai Quoc to the US Secretary of State
1) Comprehensive amnesty for indigenous peoples who have been condemned for their political activities
2) Reform the justice system of Indochina by granting the native people the same guarantees of justice as those enjoyed by the Europeans, and by abolishing the entire machinery of special courts which are the means of terrorizing and oppressing the responsible elements of the Annamese people.
3) Freedom of press and speech
4) Freedom of association and assembly
5) Freedom of movement
- Ho Chi Minh
The West wants to make our people stupid and cowardly. If we are stupid, we must be cowardly. If we are stupid and cowardly, they will be easy to control, easy to bully, easy to exploit.
1) It is a way to cover up. It does not give us freedom to publish in the press. So when there is something strange happening in the country and the world, we do not know.
2) Is a way of cheating.
— Nguyen Khai (essay " In search of the lost self ")
A society where citizens are not allowed to live truthfully, speak truthfully, and writers are not allowed to express their private thoughts on paper is a society without foundation.
— Martin Lodo
The prosperity of a nation is not determined by the wealth of its treasury, nor by the strength of its defenses, nor by the magnificence of its public buildings, but by the quality of its citizens' education, that is, the education that they receive, and the breadth of their knowledge and character. That is the true strength, the true vitality of a nation!
— Poet Bui Minh Quoc , in the poem "How bitter":
How bitter and ironic that we devoted our entire youth to this very machine.
— Lieutenant General Tran Do , saddened by the degeneration of the regime he had shed blood to build.
Dreams of erasing evil in this world I surrender myself to heaven and earth Evil is erased and replaced with the ultimate good Day by day changes, Evil is reincarnated.
This proletarian dictatorship paralyzes the entire spiritual life of a nation, paralyzes the spiritual activities of many generations, tries to enslave the entire spirit of many generations, turns many generations of people into puppets who only know how to parrot conservative and dogmatic principles...
It is harming an entire race.
— Phan Chu Trinh
Comparing the two doctrines of monarchy and democracy, we see that democracy is much better than monarchy. If a country is governed by the will of one person or one dynasty, then that country is no different from a herd of goats, whether they are happy and well-fed or suffer from hunger and cold depends only on the will of the shepherd.
— John Gardner
It is the CITIZENS who bring our political institutions and state apparatus closer to life, make them responsible and accountable, and keep them honest. No one else can do this...
— Klaus Rohland
A government can see many issues that it is obliged to act on. But this does not mean that the government takes on everything. Operating a market economy means that many issues will be decided by the market. Therefore, the big challenge for a government in a market economy is to give up its intervention. Vietnam is on the path of finding ways for the government to focus more on its core mission.
— Vu Qui Hao Nhien
Corruption elsewhere may be a bug, but in Vietnam it is a feature. Corruption is a function, a natural result of the mechanism of "The Party leads, the State manages, the people do... the people."
— Alexis de Tocqueville
Democracy expands the scope of individual liberty, Socialism restricts it. Democracy maintains human rights at the highest possible level, while Socialism turns each person into an agent, a mere number.
Democracy and Socialism have nothing in common, except one word: Equality. But notice the difference: While democracy seeks equality from individual freedom, socialism seeks equality from restraint and slavery...
— Sir Winson Churchill
Democracy is a bad form of government, but the other forms that mankind has tried are worse.
— Adam Smith:
Every individual works to the best of his ability to increase the material wealth of society. He often has no intention of looking after the community's interests, nor does he know that what he does will benefit the community.
— Le Quang Huy:
We [Vietnam] are having an education system that comes from a wrong philosophy. A philosophy that is contrary to the need to maximize the liberation of individual capacity, encourage risk-taking, and call for creativity. It is a boring education of memorization, with the greatest criteria being obedience, uniformity, and conformity. An education that is taboo about difference, fears doubt, and discourages critical thinking.
— Nam Nguyen
The leaders of the state and government are both members of the Party Central Committee, even members of the Secretariat or Politburo, and also members of the National Assembly. The clear separation of powers between the legislative, executive and judicial branches is not reflected in the current political mechanism in Vietnam. It can be said that the Party does everything!
— Ho Thu Lap :
All the achievements of China's economic reform since 1978 can be summed up in one sentence: "Reducing direct government intervention and increasing the market's dominant role"!
— Le Thanh Kien, son of Le Duan
To fight corruption, it is more important to promote democracy as a whole, so that control does not come from the authorities but from many different sides of the whole society.
- Professor Tran Van Tho :
-First of all, we need to define what is fairness? Social fairness in economic terms does not mean that the fruits of social development are shared equally among everyone.
— Dr. Le Dang Doanh:
One conclusion can be reached: Our political system is increasingly revealing inadequacies in solving long-term, fundamental, urgent problems of the nation and the country...
What is the biggest weakness of our political system? It is a one-party system, autocratic and severely undemocratic.
— Dr. Le Dang Doanh presented to the Politburo:
Our political system is densely packed with parties. The government has every ministry, every department, and every bureau, and the Party has everything. There is also a system of so-called socio-political organizations, mass organizations... but in reality they are the extended arms and mouthpieces of the Party...
— Lord Acton:
Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely.
-Benjamin Franklin:
Those who are willing to give up a little liberty in order to seek security deserve neither liberty nor security, and they will lose both...
— International Convention on Human Rights - Truth Publishing House, 1992
Everyone has the right to hold opinions without interference. Everyone has the right to freedom of expression. This right includes freedom to seek, receive and impart information and ideas of all kinds, regardless of frontiers, either orally, in writing or in print, in the form of art, or through any other media of his choice...
-Voltaire:
The more I know, the more freedom people.
— Nguyen Tien Trung :- Gathering Democratic Youth
Changing prejudices in individuals is difficult, changing the concepts and lifestyles of an entire society is much more difficult. But if each individual does not mobilize to change themselves and help society change, then when will our country be able to move forward?
— Nguyen Quang A:
If we consider a country or a nation as a collection of territory and people, we can see that no country is independent! The actions of people in a place thousands of miles away from us can affect our daily lives. And in that context, interdependence and mutual reliance are concepts that are even more vital to each people and each nation.
— Tran Van Thuy People's Artist :
I am not saying that today's leaders are incompetent and irresponsible to the people. But if they knew how to listen to opinions, if they let people freely express their opinions, the country would develop even faster. The internal strength of a country does not lie in the coins in the people's pockets.
A society that does not allow people to freely express their opinions is a dead society. In the past, we made too many mistakes because no one gave us the freedom to express our own opinions, in all fields, from big to small, from military to economic. It is not that we do not know but do not dare to speak, many people know but do not dare to express.
-Hoang Hung Poet :
How to have a knowledge economy? Without freedom of information, how can there be a knowledge economy?
How to have good works? Without freedom of thought, how can there be good works?
— Ralph Waldo Emerson:
Nothing great can be achieved without passion!
-Aldous Huxley:
Every democracy is based on the premise that power is extremely dangerous, and so people try to prevent any one person or small group from holding too much power for too long.
Friday, February 6, 2009
For democracy to work, we must participate in it, not just be observers. Those who do not vote have no right to complain!
— Louis L'Amour
Friday, February 6, 2009
You give everyone the same opportunity but everyone receives the opportunity differently. Even if the world has equal opportunity, opportunity is not perceived equally and therefore the world is not flat.
— Joseph. E. Stiglitz - Nobel Prize in Economics 2001
Friday, February 6, 2009
Freedom is when the people can speak, and democracy is when the government listens.
— Alastair Farrugia
Friday, February 6, 2009
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
— Irving Kristol
Friday, February 6, 2009
The basis of our government is the opinion of the people, and so the first important object will be to preserve the right of opinion. If I were forced to decide whether we want a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I would not hesitate to choose the latter. But I must insist that every member of society must have access to those newspapers and be able to read them!
— Thomas Jefferson
Friday, February 6, 2009
A market economy cannot function without a rule-of-law state. The economy can only develop sustainably in a competitive environment. Talent can only emerge through democratic choice.
— Vo Van Kiet - Former Prime Minister of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam
No one believes after begging with all my heart
Friday, February 6, 2009
Since the day he went on a mission to the Western Capital, Europe was startled by what happened. He called on his fellow countrymen to hurry up. He begged with all his heart, but no one believed him...
— Phan Thanh Gian - high-ranking mandarin of Nguyen Dynasty
Friday, February 6, 2009
We are in a state of widespread lying, but no one admits to lying!
— Former General Secretary Truong Chinh
Personal interests vs socialist interests
Friday, February 6, 2009
The interests of the current cadres have developed to the point where they cannot be reconciled with the interests of the farmers. The cadres have special interests that can be expressed and also difficult to express. This has made the current promise of wholehearted service of the cadres and party members in some localities to serve the people a lie, which in itself deceives people.
— Ly Xuong Binh - excerpt from the book "I told the truth to the Prime Minister"
Friday, February 6, 2009
Because the Chinese people had not yet scraped away all the old thoughts from their minds, in those years, although they had overthrown the Manchus and established the Republic, everything inside was still in disrepair. The country was a democracy, but the minds of the people were slaves, so in the fifth year of the Republic (1916), Yuan Shikai rose to power and proclaimed himself emperor.
— Phan Khoi - excerpt from "The problem of reform"
Friday, February 6, 2009
Now honesty must come first because it is the most lacking thing!
— Late Prime Minister Pham Van Dong - National Political Publishing House, Hanoi 2002
It's all the Communists' fault.
Friday, February 6, 2009
After a period of participating in domestic and overseas forums, I have a new definition of Communism as follows:
Communism is what you guys use to vent your anger and blame when you encounter any problem in society: "it's because of the Communist society", "it's because the Communists came to power that it's like this", "if it weren't for these Communists, I would be like this and that", "if it weren't for Communism, Vietnam would be like this and that".
In short, all t
— Member Luke - X-cafevn.org Forum
Fraud and information asymmetry
Friday, February 6, 2009
Information science has proven that fraud is related to information asymmetry. The fraudster knows the nature and value of the goods but does not provide information to the buyer, and the buyer is also unable to verify the quality of the goods he buys at the time of purchase. When he buys it and realizes that "it is not what it says" it is too late.
— Dr. Le Dang Doanh
Friday, February 6, 2009
Don't have the illusion that bureaucrats and conservatives will voluntarily give the people democratic rights, voluntarily materialize them to carry out the cause of innovation. The issue depends largely on the struggle [of the people].
— Lawyer Nguyen Huu Tho
Friday, February 6, 2009
Democracy, rule of law, freedom, human rights… are the common achievements of human civilization throughout history and are common values pursued by all of humanity…
— Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao
Friday, February 6, 2009
Crony capitalism is also used to refer to the situation where the father is in politics while the children are in business. The family becomes rich quickly thanks to the “business talent” of the children. However, behind that “business talent” there is always the shadow of the father. The father’s leadership position has brought valuable contracts and easy business relationships to the children.
— Dr. Nguyen Si Dung
Friday, February 6, 2009
... There is a distorted view from some communists that loving the country and loving socialism is right, and that other patriots who do not love socialism are not patriotic enough like themselves.
There are hundreds of different ways to love your country. Vietnam does not belong to any one party, faction, or religion!
— Former Prime Minister Vo Van Kiet
Friday, February 6, 2009
If the country is independent but the people do not enjoy happiness and freedom, then independence is meaningless!
- Ho Chi Minh
Friday, February 6, 2009
Our regime is a democratic regime, thoughts must be free... On all issues, everyone is free to express their opinions, contributing to finding the truth.
- Ho Chi Minh
Friday, February 6, 2009
After the revolution, power should be given to the majority of the people, not left in the hands of a few. Only then will there be no repeated sacrifices, and only then will the people be happy.
- Ho Chi Minh
Friday, February 6, 2009
People have the right to urge and criticize the Government.
If the government harms the people, the people have the right to overthrow the government.
From the President to the traffic police, if they cannot do the job for the people, the people do not need them anymore.
- Ho Chi Minh
Law of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam
Friday, February 6, 2009
The law in Vietnam today is not really a law, but a bunch of disciplines applied to protect the regime, to protect those in power. Laws in other countries are used to protect the people, bring security and order to society, and protect the weak and the voiceless.
In Vietnam, the law protects the regime and those in power.
— Lawyer Ta Quang Trung talks about Article 88 of the Penal Code
Friday, February 6, 2009
How fortunate is any government that has people who do not know how to think!
- Adolf Hitler
Friday, February 6, 2009
In this world we repent not only because of the words and actions of bad people, but also because of the appalling silence of good people.
— Martin Luther King
Friday, February 6, 2009
Freedom is the non-negotiable right of every human being... Freedom can be resisted or delayed, but freedom cannot be denied...
The most powerful weapon in the fight against extremism is not bullets or bombs – it is the universal call for freedom. Freedom is the design of the Creator, and the aspiration of every soul. Freedom is the best way to unleash the creativity and economic potential of a nation.
— President George Bush - speech in Czechoslovakia on June 5, 2007
Friday, February 6, 2009
Freedom has no time limit, freedom does not belong to any government or generation, but freedom is the dream and right of every person, every nation in every era.
— President Vaclav Havel
Friday, February 6, 2009
We can blame public agencies for not being “transparent”, not frankly admitting shortcomings, not having immediate and long-term solutions for all social negatives... But, have you ever asked for transparency and openness? Or are you afraid of trouble? Have you ever had the courage to point out the shortcomings of civil servants in their agencies? Have you ever tried to propose a drastic solution?
— True Commentary
Respect for humanity is the rejection of violence
Friday, February 6, 2009
In our time, not resources, whether land or sea, but people are the most valuable asset of a country. In people, goodness is the most valuable asset. With goodness, society will be harmonious and develop. If we respect people, we must absolutely reject violence. Because using violence, even violence against outsiders, will destroy the goodness of our people, creating an inhumane society, gradually leading to destruction.
— Nguyen An Nguyen
Friday, February 6, 2009
Freedom of speech is a fundamental right of citizens. The rights of the people must be returned to the people and fully implemented. Such a society will create unlimited space for the entrepreneurial spirit and creativity of all classes, of every Vietnamese person. In such a truly vibrant and lively society, each person can directly and indirectly contribute to social management, to the homeland, to the country.
— Journalist Phan The Hai
Transparency and economic risk
Friday, February 6, 2009
In a society without information transparency, honest businessmen will die because all their customers will be stolen by scammers. Those who sell fake goods will make a profit, while those who sell genuine goods will not be able to survive. That means the risk is very high!
— Dr. Le Dang Doanh presented to the Politburo
Resources and investment options
Friday, February 6, 2009
I would like to report to you guys why Japan can't make airplanes? It's not that their industry can't make airplanes. It's because they make more profit from digital cameras. Without aluminum, without this or that, why would they make airplanes? It's not that Japan is so stupid, so foolish, that they can't make airplanes.
— Dr. Le Dang Doanh presented to the Politburo
Friday, February 6, 2009
It is not power that corrupts, but fear.
— Aung San Suu Kyi - in her essay Freedom from Fear
Friday, February 6, 2009
Democracy is a way of removing bad government without bloodshed, such as through elections; it means that social institutions provide the means by which the people can remove those in power and that social traditions ensure that those in power cannot easily destroy the social institutions...
— Karl Popper
Friday, February 6, 2009
CORRUPTION = AUTOMATIC POWER + INFORMATION BLACKOUT – ACCOUNTABILITY
Vietnamese Courage under the Leadership of the Communist Party of Vietnam
Friday, February 6, 2009
Under the leadership of the Communist Party, the courage of the Vietnamese people was stripped away, there was no more courage. For 1000 years, the Chinese occupied and oppressed terribly. For 100 years, the Western occupied and oppressed terribly. Yet the Vietnamese people were more courageous and heroic. But for more than fifty years, the Communist Party stripped away all the heroic will of the Vietnamese people and Vietnamese intellectuals and artists, leaving them almost full of cowards and shrimps.
— Writer Tran Manh Hao
Friday, February 6, 2009
Furthermore, history should be viewed as a science. Why? Because human knowledge is closely linked to history. From simple things like eating rice with chopsticks to complex things like running a country, all come from historical lessons.
Friday, February 6, 2009
A true patriot hates injustice in his own land more than anywhere else (Clarence Darrow). So a patriot must be the one who strongly exposes and condemns the bad and evil aspects of his own country first, and strongly opposes those bad aspects.
— Sadness Blogger
That kind of patriotism... is disgusting.
Friday, February 6, 2009
The verb "patriotism" is really hateful when people use it in its name, exploit it to justify and propagate shady things that have nothing to do with patriotism.
It's disgusting to say you love your country but your hands are embezzling public property!
It is despicable to always think that you are more patriotic than others, and that those who have different thoughts are unpatriotic.
It is disgusting and despicable to kill fellow human beings in the name of patriotism.
— Bulldog's blog
Friday, February 6, 2009
Morally, socialism cannot create but only destroy the basis of all moral values: freedom and individual responsibility. Politically, it will sooner or later lead to totalitarian government. Materially, it will significantly damage the process of wealth creation, if not cause actual poverty...
— FA Hayek - essay "Socialism and Science"
Friday, February 6, 2009
The rule of law means, first of all, the absolute supremacy of law, not the influence of despotic power, and the complete elimination of arbitrariness, privileges, and arbitrariness of government.
— Albert Venn Dicey
Friday, February 6, 2009
Have socialist leaders, including Vietnamese leaders in the past and present, ever asked themselves why the best regime of humanity produced the most ferocious monsters of modern humanity, ready to destroy their own kind and comrades in the most barbaric ways?
— Le Tuan Huy
Friday, February 6, 2009
Those who were massacred and terrorized were the most elite, most intelligent and most courageous people of Russia and the Soviet Union at that time.
— Russian President Vladimir Putin said at the memorial service for the victims of the Stalin regime
Friday, February 6, 2009
A Party that conceals its shortcomings is a corrupt Party. A Party that has the courage to admit its shortcomings, clearly state the reasons for those shortcomings, and clearly examine the circumstances that gave rise to those shortcomings, is a progressive, bold, steadfast, and genuine Party...
— Ho Chi Minh in the book "Changing the way of working"
If you want democracy, you have to fight.
Friday, February 6, 2009
Don't have the illusion that bureaucrats and conservatives will voluntarily give the people democratic rights, voluntarily materialize them to carry out the cause of innovation. The issue depends a lot on the struggle.
— Lawyer Nguyen Huu Tho
Friday, February 6, 2009
Your country should not worry about not having an independent day, you should only worry about the people not having enough qualifications for independence. Your country's strength is the people's intelligence, spirit and talent!
— Liang Qichao advised Phan Boi Chau
Friday, February 6, 2009
A nation inspired by democracy… will definitely turn its back on extremism!
— Benazir Bhutto
Friday, February 6, 2009
We tend to consider history as a trash can to dispose of the past!
— Historian Duong Trung Quoc
Friday, February 6, 2009
[Nguyen Tien] Trung said that he would not be able to swear "loyalty to the Party" but would swear "loyalty to the country, filial piety to the people".
Even when Uncle Ho was alive, he never dared to say that the army was “loyal to the Party”, but only said “loyal to the country”. Arbitrarily changing the oath of a soldier is wrong, going against Ho Chi Minh’s ideology.
— BBC Vietnamese interview with Nguyen Tien Trung
Friday, February 6, 2009
Is intelligence needed?
To change a mechanism, you don't need the people's intelligence. To develop a country, you need the people's intelligence.
To change a mechanism, people's intelligence is not needed. But to create a GOOD MECHANISM, people's intelligence is needed.
Friday, February 6, 2009
This is the time when the owner begs to beg
while the people's servants eat their fill of skimming, eating dirty, eating vulgarly, cheating, stealing, robbing, cheating, greedily eating, cheating, cheating, eating in vain, eating for free, sharing, eating raw, eating cold, eating hot, eating along, eating for free, eating in small amounts, eating foolishly,
eat everything
except repentance…
— Phan Nhien Hao
"Revolutionary" Freedom of Speech
Friday, February 6, 2009
According to Huu Loan, when a journalist asked: "So the Revolution banned freedom of speech?"
Mr. Truong Chinh was surprised: “What did you say? You guys are free to curse the empire.”
— Osin's Blog
Where will Vietnam go with this culture?
Friday, February 6, 2009
Every living thing must be educated when it is born. A cat must have its mother to guide it in catching mice. A chicken must have its mother to train it in digging rice.
— Good Way
Friday, February 6, 2009
Don't be proud because Vietnam is poor but has many talented people. Ask yourself why Vietnam is still poor despite having many talented people?
— From Song of Hope's blog
Friday, February 6, 2009
Another song praising breaking down barriers and not walls!
Why doesn't anyone curse the fuck out of those who built those damn fences?
— Forum member Tathy talks about the article praising the innovative breakthrough of Mr. Vo Van Kiet
Capitalism and the Lust for Power
Friday, February 6, 2009
What government is there that is not founded on the greed for power? The great problem of social organization lies in how to minimize that greed. Capitalism is such a system.
— Milton Friedman
Friday, February 6, 2009
Democracy is when I, my wife, my children, my family eat vegetables and get poisoned, someone has to take responsibility, has to compensate, not just receive empty promises "will check", "will handle" etc.
Friday, February 6, 2009
The current mechanism is creating loopholes for corruption and embezzlement of state money. It would be strange if there were no corruption! But the biggest loss we have is not money or property, even if the amount is tens of billions or hundreds of billions. The biggest loss is morality. We live in a society where we have to lie to each other to survive.
— Mr. Tran Quoc Thuan, Deputy Head of the Office of the National Assembly of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam
Friday, February 6, 2009
Totalitarianism can be seen as a Dictatorship that has gone a long way towards dictatorship. Instead of closing down and eliminating civil society organizations (as some military dictatorships have done), Totalitarianism replaces them with pseudo-civil society organizations that look like those in liberal democratic regimes, in order to prevent any independent action outside their control from occurring in society.
— Excerpt from " Totalitarianism at the Crossroads "
The difference between Party members and ordinary people
Friday, February 6, 2009
Party members who commit crimes are pardoned / People who commit crimes are executed
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
In places of evil, people fear politics.
— Dzu Kaka's blog
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
The current mechanism is creating loopholes for corruption and embezzlement of state money. It would be strange if there were no corruption! But the biggest loss we have is not money or property, even if the amount is tens of billions or hundreds of billions. The biggest loss is morality. We live in a society where we have to lie to each other to survive.
— Mr. Tran Quoc Thuan, Deputy Head of the Office of the National Assembly of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Sustainable development is development that uses existing resources wisely, so as not only to meet the needs of the present, but also without losing the ability to meet the needs of future generations.
Don't let our children blame their ancestors for leaving them depleted resources and a completely devastated environment...
What should we do to "love our country"?
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
The “love for the country” I am talking about here is not to incite the people to rise up “empty-handed”, or to go and beg this country or that country to cause chaos in the country! I would like to say: Our country has become corrupt and trapped in the hands of others, so now we must love our country, defend each other, and help each other to redeem our reputation and interests in the future.
— Phan Chu Trinh (Eastern and Western Ethics and Morality)
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
A society that wants to maintain democracy must reject violence, and must develop non-violent means to combat evil and promote good.
— AJ Just
The nation needs to know how to join forces to do the right thing!
Monday, February 2, 2009
What a pity! Our people do not understand the duty of humanity to eat with humanity, let alone the duty of each person in the country. In France, whenever a powerful person or the government uses force to suppress the private interests of an individual or an association, people either plead, resist, or show off, and campaign until justice is achieved. Why can people do that?
— Phan Chu Trinh (Eastern and Western Ethics and Morality)
Monday, February 2, 2009
Communism is not love. Communism is the hammer with which we crush our enemies.
— Mao Zedong
Monday, February 2, 2009
I may not agree with what you say, but I will die defending your right to say it!
— Voltaire
Monday, February 2, 2009
In our country, after several thousand years, we have become accustomed to barbarism and fraud; Politics has become useless, let alone Education. Called Education, it is nothing more than a path of civil service examinations since then; To the point that because of ignorance we become weak, because of laziness we become poor, the country cannot be a country. Studying 2000 years of history, we realize that it is a history without politics and without education!
— Phan Boi Chau
Heroes and sinners of the nation
Monday, February 2, 2009
Personally, I have observed that each heroic resistance of our people is associated with national heroes. They are people with high aspirations and great courage, who raised high the national flag, thereby rallying the masses to rise up and drive out the invaders.
— Tien Nguyen (Open letter to Mr. Nguyen Khac Phuc)
But it is almost a rule that after “doing favors” to the nation, you forget that this victory was built by the blood and bones of many people, and consider the country as your own, something you took back from the enemy. You establish a government to serve your interests, those of your descendants, and enjoy the fruits of victory. In reality, our people have NEVER BEEN THE MASTERS OF THE COUNTRY, even after gaining independence.
-President Reagan called on Mr. Gorbachev
"Let's tear down this wall!"
-Do Tho wrote:
History will say that the United States used the hands of generals to kill President Ngo.
Dinh Diem... Later, President Diem's great achievements were praised by everyone.
chant like President Lincoln of the United States.
- Anne Blair :
. The plot to assassinate President Diem is a stain, a "persistent obsession that haunts the conscience of America, its people and its leaders, creating the Vietnam syndrome."
- In the United States, there is a popular saying :
"Dead men tell no tales".
- President George W. Bush said it right:
"Freedom and Fear are at war. God is not neutral between the two."
- Clausewitz 's Principles of Western Military
After a defeat,
The losing side can only counterattack,
after finding out the reason for the defeat».
As long as this country has citizens willing to fight for their rights, we can be called a democracy.[xxviii]
— Roger Nash Baldwin
Who should intellectuals listen to?
Any authoritarian state sends a message to intellectuals like this: “You guys should be quiet and contribute more, but don’t criticize us. Those who are obedient will be rewarded. Those who bother will face the consequences…”
The people want to send a message to the intellectuals like this: "You have more favorable conditions than us. Please help us speak up.
— Blogger Gio Wind
The loneliness of those with conscience
There are not many people like us in Vietnam today, like fish on a chopping board and especially very lonely.
Before, we were revolutionary activists, Viet Cong, and fought on the streets. When we were arrested and imprisoned, the masses protested loudly demanding freedom, but now, society is silent, with almost no reaction.
Before in prison, there was Liberation Radio and the press supporting me, but now it's the opposite.
— Dao Hieu - interviewed by BBC about the forced removal of the "left-wing" website
The destiny of each individual lies in the efforts of each individual. The destiny of society lies in the efforts of the collective.
— DeLusty - TNXM.net Forum
Trust comes from transparency
Scared! But if I keep quiet, nothing will change!
The most worrying thing is freedom, which means freedom and democracy, freedom to seek information, freedom to express opinions, and democracy means that if you are the master of your country, you have to speak, at least someone will listen, not be oppressed like I saw today.
Now I'm really scared! I'm scared!
— Blogger Me Nam answers the interview
People don't change when you tell them to change. People only change when they tell themselves they have to change.
— Michael Mandelbaum
If everyone is neutral, then no one can guarantee the existence of neutrality.
I once asked a friend, a writer and a wonderful person, to take up a political office. He refused, saying that someone had to be neutral. I replied: If everyone talked like you, it would be very likely that no one would be neutral, because there would be no one left to facilitate and guarantee that neutrality.
— Václav Havel
We look at the past with a utilitarian eye. What is beneficial to us, we repeat. What does not seem to be immediately beneficial, we ignore. It is a kind of down-to-earth pragmatism.
— Vuong Tri Nhan
Read history to learn about the stupidities of the past, so that one can better bear the stupidities of the present...
— Philosopher B. Russell
People's mind and spirit in the evolution
Changing the fate of a nation, of course, must first of all rely on wise and intelligent authorities and knowledgeable scholars acting as pioneers, but it must also rely on the people's spirit and enthusiasm for self-improvement. These are two things needed for progress, they must rely on each other and go together.
— Dao Trinh Nhat (excerpt from " Japan - 30 Years of Restoration ")
No, don't talk about history, we must say: this nation did not choose Phan Chu Trinh. Blaming history is irresponsible to ourselves.
Despite his best efforts and concern for the fate of the nation, Phan Chu Trinh still could not escape his lonely fate. If Phan Chu Trinh had also shouted “The rich and powerful, uproot and destroy them”, and “swore to tear the enemy to pieces and drink their blood” (old lyrics of the National Anthem), then “history” would have chosen him.
— Ha Si Phu (excerpt from " Ideology and intelligence are the foundation of society ")
When war breaks out, no matter which side wins, the people are the losers.
Our greatest sin is to be silent in the face of evil and wickedness. Especially when evil and wickedness are in power.
- Nguyen Minh Chau
No matter what position we hold or what job we do, we are all servants of the people - The food we eat, the clothes we wear, the materials we use are all the sweat and tears of the people - Therefore, we must compensate the people properly...
- Ho Chi Minh
The important role of the reviewer
I am interested in politics but do not participate, because even if the current government is replaced by another government, I would like to remain a critic.
- We
Không thể nói rằng những người cộng sản đã lừa nhân dân, không thể nói rằng họ đã cố tình đánh lừa rồi sau không chịu thực hiện. Sự thật là: họ không thể thực hiện được điều mà chính họ đã nhiệt liệt tin tưởng. Dĩ nhiên là họ không nhận như thế, họ không dám nhận ngay cả khi buộc phải hành động trái ngược hẳn với những điều đã hứa một cách thực tâm. Theo họ, công nhận điều đó cũng có nghĩa là công nhận rằng cách mạng là vô ích.
— Milovan Djilas (1911-1995) in "The New Class" (1957)
Only a life lived for others is worth living!
— Albert Einstein
Freedom of speech Vietnamese style
Freedom of speech is freedom of speech, but I do not guarantee freedom after speech...
— Dr. Le Dang Doanh
Do not be indifferent to the fate of the country.
Do not be indifferent to the fate of the country, because it is linked to the future of you and your children!
— Fattymonk’s Blog
The Romans have a saying: "History is the teacher of life." The Vietnamese consider "history a trash can to dispose of the past." So, do our children always learn lessons from the trash can?
A strong and confident state will not fear...
If a state is strong and confident, then in my opinion it should not be afraid or hesitant to dialogue with all classes of people, even with opinions that are contrary to its own.
— Professor To Duy Hop
Freedom reserved for those who support the government, reserved for the members of a party – however numerous – is not Freedom. Freedom must always be the Freedom of the dissidents.
— Rosa Luxemburg (1871-1919), founder of the German Communist Party
Fuck, even humanitarian money for flood relief is being bitten and eaten, let alone tax money. Do we need any examples to prove it?
Paying taxes is right, but paying for you guys to smoke is ridiculous!
— Sleepy member, Tathy
Spending tax money properly is the responsibility and obligation of the state!
Up until now, everywhere we go we only see signs stating "paying taxes is the responsibility and obligation of the people", but we don't see any signs saying that the state must be responsible when spending that money, for example "The state budget is taxes paid by the people, spending money for the right purpose, saving, not wasting, not embezzling is the responsibility, obligation and honor of the state"...
— Member Phong Son, Tathy
Through the years from before the August Revolution to the present day, from the dangerous moments between life and death, to the days of sharing the joys and sorrows of each victory, I have been sheltered and cared for by my compatriots many times, and have witnessed many examples of sacrifice by people of all classes and ages... Unfortunately, in the years that followed, the idea of great solidarity was disregarded, and the class perspective was applied mechanically and one-sidedly...
— Former Prime Minister Vo Van Kiet
All leaders are excellent, but why is the country still begging?
— Blogger Chung Do Kwan
Any authority that exercises sufficient power to protect me against the depredations of my neighbor can also use that power to destroy me or enslave me. This paradox lies at the foundation of modern natural state theory. How can we escape from anarchy without falling into tyranny?
— Stephen Holmes
Restricting freedom of the press is an insult to the entire nation.
To restrict the freedom of the press is to insult the whole nation. To ban certain books is to declare that the people are either stupid or slaves.
— Claude Audrien Helvétius (1715–1771)
It takes only six months to organize an election, a year to establish a market economy, and a generation to create a civil society. Without civil society, there can be no democracy.
— Ralf Dahrendorf
Difference between Party newspaper and old Saigon newspaper
During the old regime, Saigon's press was mostly opposition. I myself often drew cartoons satirizing Mr. Thieu and called him Sau Theo, but they just laughed. Now all the newspapers belong to the Party. We journalists all follow the Party, flatter the Party to death, but at the slightest provocation, we criticize and censure them. You guys are too much!
— Huynh Ba Thanh, late editor-in-chief of Ho Chi Minh City Police newspaper
Low salary, high turnover... to create loyalty
To maintain the stability of the country, Confucianism used every means to force individuals to depend on the community, and officials to depend on the supreme ruler. To do that, the Confucian monarchy used the following two measures: 1) Low salary, heavy allowance (or as today's saying goes, "low salary, high allowance"): Officials mainly lived on allowances, and salaries were only symbolic. 2) Respecting virtue and despising money.
— Do Lai Thuy (Vietnamese culture seen from the perspective of a cultured person)
The Party may accuse me of treason. I accept that crime.
But do not infer that betraying the Party is treason and accuse me of being against the country. That is the most terrible insult to every Vietnamese person who still holds pride and anxiously waits for the future of the nation.
— Truong Hung - What is reactionary?
It [Vietnamese patriotism] is not a love because people only kill each other in the name of the country, but never forgive and give in to each other in the name of the country.
— Nguyen Gia Kieng (excerpt from The Repentant Fatherland)
Western countries are superior because their culture is healthy, their mentality is correct. Vietnam suffers and is poor because Vietnamese culture is stunted and Vietnamese mentality is sick.
— Nguyen Gia Kieng (excerpt from the book The Repentant Fatherland)
Each person has his own way to get around and survive. All are smart, no one is willing to be stupid. The overall result is that the country continues to suffer in dictatorship and backwardness. A NATION OF ALL SMART PEOPLE IS A VERY STUPID NATION. Only those who are willing to accept some foolishness for the country can be considered patriotic.
— Nguyen Gia Kieng ( Multi-Party Democracy Group )
Without building a democratic regime so that freedom becomes the basic inspiration that encourages people to participate effectively in the global competition process, development is impossible.
— Nguyen Tran Bat
Folk couplets
"Struggle with parents, worship Marx and Lenin, it is a shame that the world despises the Dang family/
Harming scholars and farmers, distorting culture, the book records that the person named Khu was guilty of that crime.
Ho Chi Minh :
"The Party must win over the vast majority of peasants and must rely firmly on the poor peasants. It must do its utmost to lead the poor peasants to become revolutionary landowners to fight against the big landlords and feudalists" (Ho Chi Minh Complete Works, volume 2, page 297).
"The motto of the Land Reform is: to unleash the peasant masses " (Ho Chi Minh Complete Works, volume 6, page 509). The act of calling for "letting go" is Ho Chi Minh's encouragement to kill.
Lawyer Nguyen Manh Tuong pointed directly at Ho Chi Minh, Truong Chinh, Vo Nguyen Giap and the communist leaders and condemned the Land Reform:
“Apologizing is not a legal act. After killing someone, you cannot just apologize and then erase it.”
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The people's strength is immense.
Without effort, nothing can be done.
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Romain Rolland (France) Truth and country cannot be separated, they must become one.
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The power of evil is always a futile effort. Our thoughts always escape anyone who would suppress them.
The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them.
To die for an idea is certainly noble. But how much nobler is it to die for the right idea!
To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!
Because there are always two different kinds of thoughts: those that come from the head and those that come from the heart.
For there are two distinct sorts of ideas: Those that proceed from the head and those that emanate from the heart.
Man lives by action, not by thought.
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
A man who lives by action without thought is a manual worker.(LD)
Man is free when he wants to be free.
Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.
Freedom of thought is the life of the soul.
Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.
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Great minds think alike.
Fine minds meet.
~*~
One must always keep one's mind busy if one wants to achieve anything.
A man has always to be busy with his thoughts if anything is to be accomplished.
In these times, we fight for ideas and the press is our stronghold.
In these times we fight for ideas and newspapers are our fortress.
The history of mankind is the history of ideas.
The history of mankind is the history of ideas.
In every age, the ideas of the ruling class are the ruling (leading) ideas.
The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
I thought and thought for months and years. Ninety-nine times I came to the wrong conclusion. The hundredth time I was right.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
If I don't write to get my thoughts out, I'll go crazy.
If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.
QUOTES ABOUT FREEDOM
Man becomes free when he realizes that he is bound by laws.
Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with freedom, and dies with chaos.
Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
~*~
When I was young, I valued freedom, and when I am old, I value order. I have made the great discovery that freedom is a product of order.
In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
~*~
May we think of freedom not as the right to do whatever we want, but as the opportunity to do what is right.
May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right.
~*~
Every tyrant believes in freedom for himself.
Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.
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Responsibility is the price of freedom.
Responsibility is the price of freedom.
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America, why is your freedom filled with tears?
America, why are your libraries full of tears?
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Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom.
Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom.
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Let the human mind be free. It must be free. It will be free. Superstition and dogma cannot imprison it.
Let the human mind loose. It must be loose. It will be loose. Superstition and dogmatism cannot confine it.
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Freedom, in my metaphysical view, is the power of self-determination in a thinking being. It leads to thought, choice, and power.
Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.
~*~
The way to preserve liberty is to place it in the hands of the people, which means giving them the power at all times to defend it legally and in the courts of justice.
The way to secure liberty is to place it in the people's hands, that is, to give them the power at all times to defend it in the legislature and in the courts of justice.
~*~
Property rights are certainly as much a human right as liberty.
Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.
~*~
It is impossible to defend freedom while the people are unaware of it.
Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.
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Private property is the source of liberty. It remains the main playground.
Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main ballpark.
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In a free society, the government does not govern the affairs of men. It only administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.
In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.
~*~
Resolve not to be poor: use less than you have. Poverty is the great enemy of human happiness; it destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.
~*~
A free press, of course, can be good or bad, but almost certainly without freedom, the press can only be bad.
A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.
~*~
Without freedom, there is no art; art lives only by the constraints it imposes on itself, and dies in any other form.
Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.
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Freedom is nothing but the opportunity to become better.
Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.
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The only way to cope with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that even your existence is a rebellion.
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
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Here a free man lives. No one serves him.
Here lives a free man. Nobody serves him.
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Freedom demands a lot from each person. With freedom comes responsibility. For those who are not ready to grow up, who do not want to carry their own weight, this is a terrifying prospect.
Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect.
~*~
History can only be written well in a free country.
History can be well written only in a free country.
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The true nature of liberty is independence, maintained by violence.
The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.
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Man is free when he wants to be free.
Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.
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Man is born free, but everywhere he is found in chains.
Man is born free, but is everywhere seen bound by chains.
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Freedom of thought is the life of the soul.
Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.
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The more I know, the more freedom people.
The more enlightened men are, the freer they will be.
~*~
I don't agree with what you say, but I will risk my life to defend your right to say it.
I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.
~*~
I prefer liberty with danger to peace with slavery.
I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
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Free men, remember this motto: liberty can be won, but it can never be regained if it is lost.
Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.
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Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in shackles.
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Freedom to obey the laws one sets for oneself.
Liberty is obedience to the law which one has laid down for oneself.
~*~
Man will never be free until the last king is strangled by the intestines of the last priest.
Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
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If you want to love, you must serve; if you want to be free, you must die.
If you want to love you must serve, if you want freedom you must die.
~*~
When we speak of freedom, we must always be careful to see whether it is an assertion of individually chosen interests.
When liberty is mentioned, we must always be careful to observe whether it is not really the assertion of private interests which is thereby designated.
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The history of the world is the progress of free consciousness.
The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.
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Just as a human being would not be happy living in another person's body, a nation would not want to live in the shadow of another nation, no matter how noble and great it may be.
Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.
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Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to be wrong.
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
~*~
Freedom is never expensive. It is the breath of life. Is there anything a man would not give up to live?
Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?
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Those who can give up precious liberty for a meager temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
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Laws never make men free, men must make laws free.
The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.
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There can be no true freedom without the freedom to fail.
There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.
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Whether in chains or under laurels, freedom knows nothing but victory.
Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.
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Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts which Fate taxes heavily in blood!
Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!
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When man gives up the right to think, the last shadow of liberty disappears from the horizon.
When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.
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To say that someone does not deserve freedom is to say that poverty is their choice or that they enjoy paying a ton of taxes.
To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not.
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He who would reap the happiness of liberty, like everyone else, must undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
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I just want to be free. Butterflies are very free.
I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.
QUOTES ABOUT FALLOCUS
The abuse of language is the greatest tool of trickery and sophistry, of parties, cliques and factions in society.
Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
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Those who lack courage always find philosophy to justify it.
Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.
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The people's interests are always the tyrant's alibi.
The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.
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For the wicked, everything is an excuse.
To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.
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Fate is a misconception, it only covers up the fact that you have no control over your life.
Fate is a misconception, it's only a cover-up for the fact you don't have control over your own life.
Noname
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People who are good at making excuses are rarely good at anything else.
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
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FAMOUS QUOTES ABOUT PATRIOTISM
It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.
It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.
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Patriotism, that is the last refuge of the thug.
Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
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It is a pity that to be a good patriot one must become an enemy of all the rest of humanity.
It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.
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Patriotism is a fleeting motive that rarely outlives the social threat that arouses it.
Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
No one is better than Ho Chi Minh at taking advantage of the patriotism of the people for personal gain.
Long Dien
Patriotism, a field that no politician does not use.
Patriotism is the most painful thing for those who are exploited by the insurgents.
Long Dien
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Patriotism is a steadfast, absolute love for one's country, not a readiness to serve it uncritically, or to support its unjust demands, but a frank assessment of its sins and vices and repentance for them.
Patriotism means unqualified and unwavering love for the nation, which implies not uncritical eagerness to serve, not support for unjust claims, but frank assessment of its vices and sins, and penitence for them.
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One nation sees itself as superior to others. That breeds patriotism - and war.
Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.
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Patriot: the person who can shout the loudest without knowing what he is shouting about.
Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.
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Always be loyal to your country. Only be loyal to the government when it deserves it.
Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.
~*~
Heroism on command, senseless violence and all that nonsense in the name of patriotism - how I hate it!
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!
~*~
No one can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
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I only regret that I only have one life to sacrifice for the Fatherland.
I only regret that I have but one life to give my country.
~*~
How can a prostitute not be ashamed of her country's destruction?
On the other side of the river, she sings the song Hau Dinh Hoa
( Silver Tan Hoai )
translated by Thanh-Van
The poor girl did not know the regret of losing her country, Across the river she sang "The flowers in the rear courtyard " .
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Thousands of iron locks buried at the bottom of the river
Thanh Thach's white flag head was absent-minded.
Later generations loved their country with many thoughts.
The cold mountain reflected the old figure.
(Tay Tai Son Hoai Co) Translated by Thanh-Van
The thousand-year-old iron bar blocks the sinking riverbank ,
A piece of flagpole emerges from the Stone Head . After many years of mourning, the late events of the past come to mind, The mountain shape still sinks into the cold current .
Russian writer Alexandre Soljenitsym said:
"When we see a communist lying, we must stand up and tell him he is lying.
If we do not have the courage to tell him he is lying, we must stand up and leave, not stay and listen to his lies.
If we do not have the courage to leave, but stay and listen, we will not repeat the lies he has told to others."
The Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism, said:
"Communism is a weed that grows on the ruins of war, a poisonous insect that thrives on the garbage of life."
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said: "Communism has made people become deceitful."
Yugoslav Communist Party Secretary Milovan Djilas said:
"If you are 20 and do not follow communism, you have no heart. If you are 40 and do not abandon communism, you have no head."
Former Russian President Boris Yeltsin said:
"Communism cannot be fixed, it must be eliminated."
Former General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Mr. Gorbachev said:
"I have devoted half of my life to the communist ideal. Today I have to sadly say: The communist party only knows how to propagate and lie."
Former Russian President Putin said:
"Whoever believes what the communists say has no brain.
Whoever follows what the communists say has no heart."
Former US President Ronald Reagan said:
"Ending the Vietnam War is not simply a matter of withdrawing troops and going home. Because the price to pay for that kind of Peace is a thousand years of darkness for the generations born in Vietnam to come."
Former President of the Republic of Vietnam Nguyen Van Thieu said:
"Don't listen to what the communists say, but look closely at what they do."
One-eyed General Moshe Dayan , Israel said:
Communism is a parasite, exposed to sunlight it will die.
General Liu Ya-zhou, Political Commissar of China's National Defense University, said: "China has no thinkers , only strategists ."
Nguyen Khai , before passing away to the Marxist-Leninist paradise, in "In Search of the Lost Self" wrote: "Communists lie slyly, lie shamelessly, lie without shame and without fear.
In 2006, when he was the deputy chairman of the National Assembly of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, Mr. Tran Quoc Thuan publicly spoke out, evaluated, and verified the nature of the communist regime's activities: "Nowadays, people have to lie to each other to live... Lying for a long time becomes a habit, a habit used for a long time becomes morality, and that morality is very immoral, but it is the morality of the revolution! (of the Viet Cong)".
Carlyle A. Thayer of the Australian Defense Force Academy, one of the leading foreign scholars on Vietnam, said that criticism of the Party had now ' exploded across society….. dissent flourished but at the same time repression increased'.
Peter R. Ryder , CEO of Indochina Capital Investment Fund
“If this regime is not reformed, it will collapse on its own,” “In the 21 years I have lived in this country, I have never seen the dissatisfaction with the regime among intellectuals and businessmen reach the current level,”
Musician To Hai's "On April 30, I declare" published on BVN shows (quoted by NS.TH):
THIS 30TH OF APRIL IS THE DAY THAT FREED ME, A CITIZEN OF THE NORTHERN REGION, FROM THE SLAVERY OF AN EXTREMELY REACTIONARY FOREIGN POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY AND WILL CONTRIBUTE TO BURY IT SOON WITH THOSE WHO LIVED ON IT FOR THE REMAINING YEARS OF MY LIFE!
Future Professor :
"After all, Marx was a great thinker. But the world would probably be a better place if Marx had never existed."
Chu Chi Nam : Marxist philosophical theory is wrong and outdated
After nearly 100 years of applying Marxist theory, the result was hundreds of millions of deaths: deaths not only because of opposing this theory, opposing the communist party, but the most deaths were due to internal purges within the party, then came the number of deaths outside the party, outside the communist country.
His Holiness the Dalai Lama , in a dialogue with a Brazilian theologian, Leonardo Boff, said:
“Think carefully, for your thoughts become words. Speak carefully, for your words become actions. Act carefully, for your actions become habits . Take care of your habits, for they become your character. Take care of your character, for they become your destiny, and your destiny will be your life. There is no higher religion than Truth.”
Polish Times 'ranks' Ho Chi Minh - 3rd among 13 bloodiest dictators of the 20th century. On March 5, the Polish Times published a ranking of the 13 bloodiest dictators of the 20th century, including Ho Chi Minh. Accordingly, Ho Chi Minh, during his 24 years in power, caused the deaths of 1.7 million Vietnamese people through a bloody war.
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Dang Quoc Bao , Central Committee of Science and Education, in a report circulated only to senior party members, said that “the Communist Party is no longer righteous at all because Marxism-Leninism is outdated, incorrect, and unscientific.”
Communist Party of Vietnam members talk about the party[xxx]:
Nguyen Ho , 55 years old, Chairman of the Central Fatherland Front , leader of the Traditional Resistance Group, wrote in Viewpoints and Life: “ On March 21, 1990, I left Saigon, which was also the day I left the Communist Party of Vietnam. I have been a revolutionary for 56 years, my family has 2 martyrs, Nguyen Van Dao, my brother, Colonel of the People's Army of Vietnam, sacrificed on January 9, 1966 in Cu Chi, and my wife Tran Thi Thiet was arrested and died at the Saigon Police Department during the Tet Offensive of 1968 , but I have to admit that I chose the wrong ideal: Communism . Because for more than 60 years on that revolutionary path, the Vietnamese people have made great sacrifices but in the end, they got nothing, the country is still poor and backward, the people do not have prosperity, happiness, democracy and freedom. That is a disgrace” (Wikipedia)
Nguyen Minh Can , Vice Chairman of the Hanoi People's Committee, Hanoi Communist Ambassador to the Soviet Union , recorded the cruelty and hooliganism of the Communist Party during the Land Reform 1953-1956: " Wrongfully killing hundreds of thousands of people, exiled millions of people, causing moral degradation and reversal. At the rally on the evening of October 29, 1956, Mr. Vo Nguyen Giap only announced that 12,000 cadres and party members had been released! Whether that number is correct or not, who knows! In short, the numbers of people who died during the Land Reform have not been determined. In any case, the estimated numbers show that this was a heinous crime. This crime is a crime against humanity " (Don't Forget the Lessons of the Land Reform Half a Century Ago)
Tran Do , Lieutenant General , Vice President of the National Assembly : “ The revolution in Vietnam has destroyed and abolished a feudal colonial government, a slave society, a country lost, poverty and humiliation. But it has built a society with many injustices, many evils, an anti-democratic, autocratic government, a totalitarian one-party regime, many bad habits and worse than the old regime ” (Tran Do – Dragon Snake Diary)
Hoang Minh Chinh joined the party in 1939, Vice President of Nguyen Ai Quoc School and President of the Institute of Marxism-Leninism Philosophy, in a speech lamented that " People under the communist regime have been oppressed worse than during the colonial and imperialist period ." (Wikipedia)
Judge Tran Lam of the Supreme People's Court : " The Party always says that the National Assembly is of the people, by the people, for the people. The knowledgeable people consider the National Assembly a puppet . The Party and the State organize elections, knowing that this is a setup, but they still do it . "
Tran Quoc Thuan , Deputy Head of the National Assembly Office : " The current mechanism creates loopholes for corruption to embezzle state money. But the biggest thing that is lost is morality . We are now living in a society where we have to lie to each other to survive."
Nguyen Khai , Colonel, National Assembly Delegate, Deputy Secretary General of the Communist Writers Association:
- Communists lie slyly, lie shamelessly, lie without shame and without fear . People, in order to survive, must also lie .
Nguyen Van Tran , Commander and Secretary of Military Commission of Military Region 9 (1947), Chief of the Deputy Prime Minister's Office, Chairman of the National Unification Planning Committee (1962-1974):
" The crimes of this regime, for the past 40 years, are truly indescribable."“.
Nguyen Van An , former member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of Vietnam, head of the Central Party Organization Committee and chairman of the National Assembly from 2001 to 2006, who at one point hoped to become General Secretary, said in a new interview published in the domestic Weekly Vietnam network that
“ the Party has made systemic errors and has been wrong from the very foundation .”
He explained: “ Systemic errors are errors from root to tip, from theory to model .”
Nguyen Van Linh, General Secretary, in a speech at the Writers' Association, had to call for untying the arts , which means the Party considers artists and writers as animals .
Prime Minister Vo Van Kiet shouted: " Innovate or die ."
Nguyen Thanh Hai[xxxi]Faculty of Philosophy - Academy of Politics: However, there is still a large number of cadres and party members who have degraded in political ideology, morality, and lifestyle. The situation of bureaucracy, corruption, waste, rivalry for position, factionalism, power-seeking, arbitrariness, violation of discipline, etc. is becoming increasingly serious.
Nixon once said in a White House meeting about Mr. Thieu: “I don't know if that threat is enough, but I'm ready to do anything, including cut off his head if necessary . ”
Henry Kissinger
“I had very little personal friendship with Mr. Thieu, but watching him pursue the fight alone after the Americans withdrew, I admired him very much. He was not pitied, nor understood by many people, but that did not affect his personality.”[xxxii]
Cu Huy Ha Vu loudly declared: "As long as I am alive, I will devote all my strength to the fierce struggle to soon eliminate the criminal totalitarian communism in our beloved Vietnam, and together with the people, regain the right to live freely with dignity."[xxxiii]
-8 BEST QUOTES IN THE WORLD :
1. "Never play with the feelings of others, because you may win the game, but the risk is that you will surely lose that person for the rest of your life." - (Shakespeare).
2. "The world is in misery not because of the violence of bad people, but because of the silence of good people." - (Napoleon).
3. "I am grateful to all those who said NO to me. Thanks to that, I learned to handle things myself." - (Einstein).
4. "If friendship is your weakest point, then you are the strongest person in the world." - (Abraham Lincoln).
5. "A smiling person does not mean they are not sad. It means they are able to deal with that sadness." - (Shakespeare).
6. “Opportunities are like sunrises, if you wait too long, you may miss them.” - (William Arthur).
7. “When you are in the light, everything follows you, but when you enter the darkness, even your own shadow does not follow you.” - (Hitler).
8. “Money always makes a sound. But banknotes are always silent. So when your value increases, always keep quiet.” - - (Shakespeare).
QUOTES ABOUT COMMUNISM[xxxiv]
1- Russian President Dmitry Medvedev declared in Washington:
Stalin was a killer
(April 15, 2010)
2- Russia President Vladimir Putin (Russian President)
He who believes the communists has no brain. He who
follows the communists has no heart. He who believes the communists has no brain. He who follows the communists has no heart.
3- Russia President Boris Yeltsin (Russian President)
You can build a throne with bayonets, but you can't sit on it for long.
Communists are incurable, they must be eradicated.
You can build a throne with bayonets, but you can't sit on it for long.
Communists are incurable, they must be eradicated.
4- Soviet Secretary General Mikhail Gorbachev (Soviet Secretary General)
I have devoted half of my life for communism.
Today, I am sad to say that The Communist Party only spreads propaganda and deceives..
I have devoted half of my life to the communist ideal. Today I sadly confess that: communists only know how to propagate and lie.
5- German Chancellor Angela Merkel (East German Prime Minister)
The communists make the people deceitful.
Communists have made the people deceitful.
6- Secretary General Milovan Djilas (General Secretary of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia)
At 20, if you are not a communist, you are heartless. At
40, if you don't abandon communism, you are brainless. 7-
Russian writer Alexandre Soljenitsym (Russian writer)
When a Communist lies to you, stand up and tell him that he is lying. If you don't dare to say that he lies, walk away. If you don't dare to walk away, do not recite the lie that you heard to anybody
. If we don't have the courage to tell lies, we must leave. If we don't have the courage to leave, we will not repeat the lies to others.
8- Dalai Lama
The Communists are wild weeds that sprawl on the devastation of war.
The Communists are venomous insects that breed on the garbage. Communists are
wild weeds that sprawl on the devastation of war .
Communists are poisonous insects that breed on the garbage of life.
9- USA President Abraham Lincoln
You can fool some of the people all the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time. You can fool some of the people all the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people
all the time.
10- USA General Sheridan
The only good communist is a dead communist
.
11- USA President Ronald Reagan (US President)
How do you tell a communist? - Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin.
And how do you tell an anti-Communist?
- It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin. How do you know who is a communist? - That's someone who reads Marx and Lenin.
How do you know who is anti-communist? - That's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.
Ending the Vietnam War is not simply a matter of withdrawing troops and going home. Because the price to pay for that kind of peace is a thousand years of darkness for the generations born in Vietnam.”
Famous Quotes about Communism[xxxv]
Russian writer Alexandre Soljenitsym said:
"When we see a communist lying, we must stand up and tell him he is lying. If we do not have the courage to tell him he is lying, we must stand up and leave, not stay and listen to his lies. If we do not have the courage to leave, but stay and listen, we will not repeat the lies he has told to others."
The Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism, said:
"Communism is a weed that grows on the ruins of war, a poisonous insect that thrives on the garbage of life."
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said:
"Communism has made people become deceitful."
Yugoslav Communist Party Secretary Milovan Djilas said:
"If you are 20 years old and not a Communist, you have no heart.
If you are 40 years old and not abandoning Communism, you have no head."
Former Russian President Boris Yeltsin said:
"Communism cannot be fixed, it must be eliminated."
General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev:
"I have devoted half of my life to the Communist ideal.
Today I must sadly say: The Communist Party only knows how to propagate and lie."
Former Russian President Putin said:
"Whoever believes what the communists say has no brain.
Whoever follows what the communists say has no heart."
Former US President Ronald Reagan said:
"Ending the Vietnam War is not simply a matter of withdrawing troops and going home. Because the price to pay for that kind of Peace is a thousand years of darkness for the generations born in Vietnam to come."
Former President of the Republic of Vietnam Nguyen Van Thieu said:
"Don't listen to what the communists say, but look closely at what they do."
Mr. Bui Van Gian said:
"Living with the communists will only make you angry and die!"
An anonymous person said:
“Communism was born from poverty and ignorance, grew up with lies and violence, and died in the contempt and curse of all mankind.”
Ho Chi Minh said:
"I have no ideology other than Marxism-Leninism."
"For socialism to be completely victorious in our country and in the whole world, I am ready to buy that victory even if I have to burn down the Truong Son mountain range or fight the Americans to the last Vietnamese person." I don't understand how the sacred spirit of Vietnam's mountains and rivers could have given birth to such a strange person? It was Ho who caused so many upheavals and deaths.
An anonymous person said:
"Even a lamppost would want to leave the country if it could walk."
Writer Duong Thu Huong said:
“After nearly a quarter of a century of war, on this strip of land, one can still hear only the flapping of black crows in the cemeteries stretching from north to south, from south to north” and “War does not make citizens more mature, wiser, or more daring in exercising their civil rights, but on the contrary, it makes the masses more cowardly, more easily compromised by humiliation, more easily bowed down to crime.”
Nguyen Gia Kieng, from the Thong Luan group, said:
"That is because our nation has fallen apart, each person feels lonely, unable to do anything even if they want to. That is also because we are too fed up with the country, tired, have lost our will and pride. The Communist Party of Vietnam did not just defeat the nationalist or southern factions. They defeated the entire Vietnamese nation. We have been wounded so painfully that we cannot stand up."
XUAN VU said:
"Communists never know how to love the people and love the country. Whoever knows how to love the people and love the country is not a Communist."
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