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“Nowhere on the planet, nowhere in history, was there a regime more vicious, more bloodthirsty, and at the same time more cunning than the Bolshevik, the self-styled Soviet regime.”

War Self Planets Cold Soviet Regimes Cold War Vicious Cunning Bolsheviks

Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“Judged by every standard which history has applied to Governments, the Soviet Government of Russia is one of the worst tyrannies that has ever existed in the world. It accords no political rights. It rules by terror. It punishes political opinions. It suppresses free speech. It tolerates no newspapers but its own. It persecutes Christianity with a zeal and a cunning never equalled since the times of the Roman Emperors. It is engaged at this moment in trampling down the peoples of Georgia and executing their leaders by hundreds.”

“A man has made great progress in cunning when he does not seem too clever to others.”

Men Doe Made Seems Lying Progress Clever Cunning Truth And Lies Great Progress

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“Stripped of the cunning artifices of the tailor, and standing forth in the garb of Eden - what a sorry set of round-shouldered, spindle-shanked, crane-necked varlets would civilized men appear!”

Men Standing Sorry Rounds Civilized Cunning Eden Artifice Tailors Cranes

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)

“In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.”

Women Communication Speech Obvious Cunning Yelling

Author:Cynthia Ozick

“The greatest cunning is to have none at all.”

Integrity Conflict Competition Intelligence Negotiation Cunning

Book:The People, Yes

Source: The People, Yes

“There exists, at the bottom of all abasement and misfortune, a last extreme which rebels and joins battle with the forces of law and respectability in a desperate struggle, waged partly by cunning and partly by violence, at once sick and ferocious, in which it attacks the prevailing social order with the pin-pricks of vice and the hammer-blows of crime.”

Source: Les Misérables

“History repeats itself, but in such cunning disguise that we never detect the resemblance until the damage is done.”

Done Damage Repeats Disguise Cunning Resemblance Repeating History History Repeats Itself Damage Is Done

Book:Clearing the ground

Source: Clearing the ground

“That observation which is called knowledge of the world will be found much more frequently to make men cunning than good.”

Men World Found Observation Cunning Knowledge Of The World

Book:The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752

Source: The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752

“Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning.”

Men Wish Wise Every Man Cunning Being Wise

Book:Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales

Source: Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales

“Women are told from their infancy, and taught by the example of their mothers, that a little knowledge of human weakness, justly termed cunning, softness of temper, outward obedience and a scrupulous attention to a puerile kind of propriety, will obtain for them the protection of man.”

Men Humans Kind Littles Mother Attention Example Taught Weakness Protection Obedience Temper Cunning Infancy Propriety Softness Little Knowledge

Book:The Works of Mary Wollstonecraft

Source: The Works of Mary Wollstonecraft

“To make fun of a person to his face is a brutal way of amusing one's self; be delicate and cunning, and keep your laugh in your sleeve, lest you frighten away your game.”

Way Persons Self Faces Games Fun Laughing Delicate Brutal Ridicule Cunning Sleeves Amusing

Book:The Romance of the Commonplace

Source: The Romance of the Commonplace

“A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer - that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffing, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two.”

Men Two Politics Sides Honest Politician Dare Silly Coward Both Sides Cunning Honest Man Negation Knaves Shuffling

Author:William Hazlitt

“Reason is just as cunning as she is powerful. Her cunning consists principally in her mediating activity, which, by causing objects to act and re-act on each other in accordance with their own nature, in this way, without any direct interference in the process, carries out reason's intentions.”

Way Reason Process Powerful Objects Activity Direct Intention Carrie Cunning Interference

Author:Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“A lot of film directors are quite scared of actors. They are a bit of a nightmare sometimes, but I like them. It looks like cunning, but you try to get extra things from them all the time, by stealth, by making them feel confident, so they trust you and you can push a bit.”

Feels Trying Looks Sometimes Film Actors Bits Directors Scared Extras Nightmare Cunning Film Directors Stealth

Author:Danny Boyle

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