Quotes from Leonid Brezhnev

The highest peace is the peace between opposites.

Brezhnev wasn't a minus for the history of our country, he was a huge plus, He laid a foundation for the country's economics and agriculture.

Whatever else may divide us, Europe is our common home; a common fate has linked us through the centuries, and it continues to link us today.

The most important thing in my life, its leitmotif, has been the constant and close contacts with working people, with workers and peasants.

It is madness for any country to build its policy with an eye to nuclear war.

Detente is a readiness to resolve differences and conflicts not by force, not by threats and sabre-rattling, but by peaceful means, at the conference table.

We Communists have to string along with the capitalists for a while. We need their agriculture and their technology.

Whatever else may divide us, Europe is our common home; a common fate has linked us through the centuries, and it continues to link us today.

One sits the whole day at the desk and appetite is standing next to me. "Away with you," I say. But Comrade Appetite does not budge from the spot.