Elena Ceausescu: The negative role model - The execution of the Ceausescus in 1989 destroyed the image of Elena as the female ideal, but no one has ever really taken her place. Strangely, Elena Ceausescu still largely defines what it would mean to be a powerful woman in Romanian politics today.
Ceausescu's Journey to the East - Academic paper examining the influence of the personality cults of Mao and Kim Il Sung on Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaucescu. Downloads as PDF.
What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Ceaucescu, Nicolae Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Ceaucescu, Nicolae
Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Ceaucescu, Nicolae Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Ceaucescu, Nicolae
When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
"Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Ceaucescu, Nicolae "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Ceaucescu, Nicolae
Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Ceaucescu, Nicolae The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Ceaucescu, Nicolae
Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Ceaucescu, Nicolae "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Ceaucescu, Nicolae
Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Ceaucescu, Nicolae In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Ceaucescu, Nicolae
The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Ceaucescu, Nicolae The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words My other wife is beautiful. I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Ceaucescu, Nicolae
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster Ceaucescu, Nicolae When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Ceaucescu, Nicolae
Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Ceaucescu, Nicolae Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Ceaucescu, Nicolae
"Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Ceaucescu, Nicolae Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Ceaucescu, Nicolae
"A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Ceaucescu, Nicolae "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Ceaucescu, Nicolae
