Quotes About Influence

The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.

What women do with their bodies as long as they're around men with power and money actually seems to me very near to prostitution. I still don't catch the subtle difference between the sort of femininity sold in magazines and that of the whore.

In the annals of history, few men have left a more positive imprint on the world than Pope John Paul II.

Alas, 'tis force alone that can compel to virtuous actions a degenerate people.

Necessity inspires the fatal thought.

In 1907 Edmund Gosse thought he had to leave his father to become himself; seventy years later Geoffrey Wolff knows he cannot leave his father because he has become his father.

I think feminists are unaware of the tremendous extent of the role of women in history.

I always tried to do things by example, even though I was not a very good mother regarding routines and family life.

Kolmogorov – Poincaré – Gauss – Euler – Newton, are only five lives separating us from the source of our science.

Every cook has to learn how to govern the state.

One man with a gun can control a hundred without one.

Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.

Give me just one generation of youth, and I'll transform the whole world.

Our party, like any other political party, strives for political supremacy for itself .

The struggle to free the working people from the influence of the bourgeoisie in general, and of the imperialist bourgeoisie in particular, is impossible without a struggle against opportunist prejudices concerning the "state".

To refuse to work in the reactionary trade unions means leaving the insufficiently developed or backward masses of workers under the influence of the reactionary leaders, the agents of the bourgeoisie, the labor aristocrats, or the "workers who have become completely bourgeois".

If] we were to make "recognition of the dictatorship [of the proletariat]" a condition of trade union membership, we should be committing a folly, we should be damaging our influence over the masses, we should be helping the Mensheviks. For the whole task of the Communists is to be able to convince the backward elements, to work among them, and not to fence themselves off from them…

Russia's big owo

The Comrade Wolf knows whom to eat, as the saying goes. It knows whom to eat and is not about to listen to anyone, it seems.

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Nature has always had more force than education.

One feels like crawling on all fours after reading your work.

Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.

The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.