Quotes About Impact

Every work turns against its author: the poem will crush the poet, the system the philosopher, the event the man of action.

En el estallido del volcán de nuestro ser, ¿bastaría el veneno acumulado en nosotros para envenenar al mundo entero?

Ma vision de l'avenir est si précise que, si j'avais des enfants, je les étranglerais sur l'heure.

Trees are massacred, houses go up - faces, faces everywhere. Man is spreading. Man is the cancer of the earth.

CompatrioÅ£ii mei au geniul superlativului. ÎÅ£i trântesc un compliment de pe urma c?ruia nu-Å£i mai revii...

Les ravages de la "civilisation" sont si évidents qu'on a honte de les signaler encore.

Jaki? pisarz nie dlatego na nas oddzia?a?, ?e?my go du?o czytali, lecz dlatego ?e rozmy?lali?my o nim ponad rozs?dn? miar?.

Hardly any of the names of ancient artists are recorded, even though they did more for the happiness of their people than the pharoahs, generals, and world rulers whose pride filled the world with sorrow.

Things perceived as real become real in their consequences.

The hour of crime does not sound at the same time for all peoples. Hence, the permanence of history.

If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Little touches can make a big difference.

Io ora mi domando se aumentando la tensione elettrica, l'umanità intera, in un tempo più o meno lontano, non finirà per impazzire. Ecco un grande problema che dovrebbe preoccupare le menti dei nostri scienziati.

A word is dead when it's been said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way?

I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine.

This was what love did. It unhinged you.

How you enter a space and how you leave a space is as important as what happens in the space.

No matter what role you play in a meeting, how you show up in that role is critical to the meeting's success.

Dialogues build strong links when they are about things that matter.

The leading statesmen in a free country have great momentary power. They settle the conversation of mankind. It is they who, by a great speech or two, determine what shall be said and what shall be written for long after.

You can turn me into dust but you can neither kill nor can suppress my ideology. Rather my ideology will spread with greater intense after my death.

I was with Bobby Kennedy at the Ambassador Hotel. I was a rookie cop in L.A. when RFK came through. I just stood there and watched a man who should have gone on to be president bleed to death on the floor. Every day since then I've wondered what I could have done differently.