Royce Kurmelovs

"They tried to kill me, as you see I am alive, but tell me, were my obituaries good?" - Makarios III, President of Cyprus following a coup and attempt on his life, speech to the UN, 19 July 1974.

"To Joseph Stalin: Stop sending people to kill me! [...] If you don't stop sending killers, I'll send a very fast working one to Moscow and I certainly won't have to send another." - Josep Tito, guerrilla and politician, Message found among the personal effects of Joseph Stalin.

"Sometimes I feel like I’m being paid to curse in front of people who haven’t heard it in a while." - Anthony Bourdain, cook, writer, father, The New York Times, 8 June 2018

'We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was "legal" and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was "illegal."' - Dr Martin Luther King Jr, Letter from Birmingham Jail 1963

"It doesn't matter whether the cat is black or white, as long as it catches mice." - Deng Xiaoping, speech at the Communist Youth League conference in July 1962.

"Nothing would please me more [than to expel the Americans], but who else would pump the oil that we need? God damn America." - Muammar Gaddafi, Libyan military officer, revolutionary and dictator, 2 April 1973.

“I think it’s very, very important for the pope to be careful when he talks about matters of theology." - JD Vance, author and Vice President of the USA, 14 April 2026.

"I think we agree, the past is over." - former US President George Bush, March 2000.

"You are the moderate man, the invaluable understrapper of the wicked man. You, the moderate man, may be used for wrong but are useless for right." - Character in dialogue from The Confidence-Man (1857) by Herman Melville.

"As the leader of all illegal activities in Casablanca, I am an influential and respected man." - Senator Ferrari, black market operator and people smuggler, Casablanca, 1944