Czechoslovakia Quotes

• This is not 1968 and the invasion of Czechoslovakia, where Russia can threaten its neighbors, occupy a capital, overthrow a government, and get away with it. Things have changed.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Russia, Government, Invasion

  "Rice: Russia Risks International Condemnation". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, Michele Kelemen, www.npr.org. August 14, 2008.

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• Czechoslovakia provided Soviet Russia with landing fields for aircraft, thereby increasing the threat against Germany.

  Adolf Hitler

  Russia, Germany, Fields

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• Czechoslovakia has ceased to exist.

  Adolf Hitler

  War, World, World War 2

  Max Domarus, Adolf Hitler (1990). “Hitler: speeches and proclamations, 1932-1945 : the chronicle of a dictatorship”

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• You know what happened, you know, in 1938: France, England, you know, just sold out Czechoslovakia to Hitler.

  Milos Forman

  France, England, Sold Out

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• Los pobres estadounidenses están tan ocupados defendiendo los derechos de los hindúes en Pakistán, de los musulmanes en la India, de los judíos en Palestina, de los coreanos en Japón, de los italianos en Yugoslavia y de los húngaros en Checoslovaquia, que simplemente no pueden pensar en los negros de Estados Unidos.

  George Mikes

  Divertido, Humor, Derechos

  George Mikes (1959). "Cómo rascar cielos: los Estados Unidos explorados, redescubiertos y explicados".

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• Desde que asumí mi actual cargo, mi principal propósito ha sido trabajar por la pacificación de Europa, por la eliminación de esas sospechas y animosidades que durante tanto tiempo han envenenado el aire. El camino que conduce al apaciguamiento es largo y está lleno de obstáculos. La cuestión de Checoslovaquia es la última y quizá la más peligrosa. Ahora que lo hemos superado, creo que es posible seguir avanzando por el camino de la cordura.

  Neville Chamberlain

  Pasado, Aire, Europa

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• Because of my parents' love of democracy, we came to America after being driven twice from our home in Czechoslovakia - first by Hitler and then by Stalin.

  Madeleine Albright

  Home, America, Parent

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• The Pact of Munich is signed. Czechoslovakia as a power is out.

  Alfred Jodl

  Munich, Pact

  "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany". Book by William Lawrence Shirer, p. 422 (Munich Conference, September 29, 1938), 1990.

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• Qué horrible, fantástico, increíble, es que estemos cavando trincheras y probándonos máscaras antigás aquí por una disputa en un país lejano entre personas de las que no sabemos nada.

  Neville Chamberlain

  País, Guerra, Gente

  Emisión de radio, 27 de septiembre de 1938

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• Who would have predicted... that Dubcek, who brought the tanks in in Czechoslovakia in 1968 is now being proclaimed a hero in Czechoslovakia. Unbelievable.

  Dan Quayle

  Hero, Tanks, Politics

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• I was 25 years old and pursuing my doctorate in economics when I was allowed to spend six months of postgraduate studies in Naples, Italy. I read the Western economic textbooks and also the more general work of people like Hayek. By the time I returned to Czechoslovakia, I had an understanding of the principles of the market. In 1968, I was glad at the political liberalism of the Dubcek Prague Spring, but I was very critical of the Third Way they pursued in economics.

  Vaclav Klaus

  Spring, Years, People

  "No Third Way Out: An Interview with Vaclav Klaus". Interview with John Fund, reason.com. June 1, 1990.

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• In Czechoslovakia there is no such thing as freedom of the press. In the United States there is no such thing as freedom from the press.

  Martina Navratilova

  United States, Publicity, Journalism

  Quoted in Lee Green, Sportswit (1984)

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• Empezaré diciendo lo que todo el mundo querría ignorar u olvidar... hemos sufrido una derrota total y sin paliativos... Todo ha terminado. Silenciosa, enlutada, abandonada, rota, Checoslovaquia retrocede en la oscuridad... Estamos en presencia de un desastre de primera magnitud que se ha abatido sobre Gran Bretaña y Francia. No nos ceguemos ante ello... No supongamos que esto es el fin. Esto es sólo el comienzo del ajuste de cuentas.

  Winston Churchill

  Adversity, Broken, Darkness

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• By the time I returned to Czechoslovakia, I had an understanding of the principles of the market.

  Vaclav Klaus

  Understanding, Prague, Principles

  "No Third Way Out: An Interview with Vaclav Klaus". Interview with John Fund, reason.com. June 1, 1990.

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• La República Checa es una parte importante de Europa Central. Está claro que debemos participar en la integración europea. Estoy convencido de que la República Checa -o, en el pasado, Checoslovaquia- habría sido uno de los miembros fundadores de la UE de no haber sido por la toma del poder por los comunistas en 1948.

  Vaclav Klaus

  Pasado, República Checa, Europa

  "'El pasado es el pasado'". Entrevista con Christian Neef y Jan Puhl, Renata Hanusova, www.spiegel.de. 13 de marzo de 2006.

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• Most people have friends, but no money. I have the opposite. I don't have a chance to talk to my real friends, the ones I've had since I was 5 years old. Sometimes I wish I could bring Czechoslovakia to America. Then I would be the happiest guy in the world.

  Jaromir Jagr

  Real, Hockey, Opposites

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• Through the inspiration of Vaclav's words, the courage of his dissidence and the integrity of his leadership, Czechoslovakia successfully transitioned from an authoritarian state to a free democracy at the heart of Europe.

  Michael D. Higgins

  Integrity, Inspiration, Heart

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The first year I was in office, only about 800 people came out of the Soviet Union, Jews. By the third year I was in office... second year, 1979, 51,000 came out of the Soviet Union. And every one of the human rights heroes - I'll use the word - who have come out of the Soviet Union, have said it was a turning point in their lives, and not only in the Soviet Union but also in places like Czechoslovakia and Hungary and Poland [they] saw this human rights policy of mine as being a great boost to the present democracy and freedom that they enjoy.

  Jimmy Carter

  Hero, Rights, Years

  "Interview with President Jimmy Carter". Index of coldwar Interviews. Episode-18, nsarchive.gwu.edu.

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• When I first started to take photographs in Czechoslovakia, I met this old gentleman, this old photographer, who told me a few practical things. One of the things he said was, "Josef, a photographer works on the subject, but the subject works on the photographer."

  Josef Koudelka

  Photography, Gentleman, Firsts

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• When we do in Grenada what the Soviet Union did in Czechoslovakia and Afghanistan, we lose moral authority and credibility.

  Jesse Jackson

  Unions, Moral, Authority

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• Mis padres pertenecían a la generación que se creía hija de una Checoslovaquia libre, la única democracia de Europa central.

  Madeleine Albright

  Children, Europe, Parent

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• When I went to Czechoslovakia under the old Communist regime one day in the '80s, I thought to myself whatever I do, whatever happens to me in Prague I'm not going to use the name Kafka, I'm just not going to do it. I won't do it; it's so easy, everyone else does, I'm not going to. I'll write the first non-Kafka mentioning piece.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Writing, Names, One Day

  Fuente: www.abc.net.au

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• We are a nation that worships speed and power. And for good reason. Without power we would still be part of England and everybody would be out of work... Bicycles are too slow and impuissant for a nation like ours. They belong in Czechoslovakia.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Would Be, Modern Life, England

  P. J. O'Rourke (2016). “Republican Party Reptile: The Confessions, Adventures, Essays and (Other) Outrages of . . .”, p.94, Pan Macmillan

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• The bloody massacre in Bangladesh quickly covered over the memory of the Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia, the assassination of Allende drowned out the groans of Bangladesh, the war in the Sinai Desert made people forget Allende, the Cambodian massacre made people forget Sinai, and so on and so forth until ultimately everyone lets everything be forgotten.

  Milan Kundera

  Memories, War, People

  "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting". Book by Milan Kundera, 1979.

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• Estaba en Viena en agosto de 1968 para una reunión de la Federación Internacional de Sociedades de Esclerosis Múltiple, de la que era cofundador, y queríamos que se adhiriera un vigésimo país. Pidieron un voluntario para ir a Praga a conseguir que Checoslovaquia lo hiciera, y mi mano siempre se levanta la primera.

  Shirley Temple

  Country, August, Hands

  "Prague Journal; Shirley Temple Black Unpacks a Bag of Memories" by Craig R. Whitney, www.nytimes.com. September 11, 1989.

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