Leo Tolstoy Quotes, People Quotes, Historical Quotes

What is the cause of historical events? Power. What is power? Power is the sum total of wills transferred to one person. On what condition are the willso fo the masses transferred to one person? On condition that the person express the will of the whole people. That is, power is power. That is, power is a word the meaning of which we do not understand.

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I try to make classics. I don't try to make things that aren't good. It's always a pleasure to see that people care about the kind of music I'm making.

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It is a good sign in a nation when things are done badly. It shows that all the people are doing them. And it is bad sign in a nation when such things are done very well, for it shows that only a few experts and eccentrics are doing them, and that the nation is merely looking on.

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I don't particularly like it when people put words in my mouth, either, by the way, unless I say it.

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I've decided that I can also touch the hearts of many - dead people, but the living, too. (Cameryn Mahoney)

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I claim to have been a lifelong and wholly disinterested friend of the British people.

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The mass of the American people are most emphatically not in the deplorable condition of which you speak.

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For young people always begin by loving exaggeration, that infirmity of noble minds.

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I do think that all politicians today have to be more attentive to people wanting to be heard, wanting to have more control over their lives.

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The capacity to be alone is the capacity to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it is not. It is an existential truth: only those people who are capable of being alone are capable of love, of sharing, of going into the deepest core of the other person without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, without reducing the other to a thing, and without becoming addicted to the other.

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Living in a constant chase after gain compels people to expend their spirit to the point of exhaustion.

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Daesh is attacking us. Their leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, wants to destroy the Saudi state. These people are criminals. They're psychopaths.

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It is obvious that the only interesting people are interested people, and to be completely interested is to have forgotten about "I".

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I get up to 400 letters a week, so I have a full-time PA, but I try to answer everything. People don't seem to realise that if they send something living in the post it's going to die on the way. Especially when you wrap it in a polythene bag.

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The true preacher can be known by this, that he deals out to the people his life,--life passed through the fire of thought.

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Call-time has renewed my faith in the need for public financing of elections. Call-time is where I as the candidate, sit in a room with my “call-time manager,” and a phone. Then I call people and ask them for money. For hours. Apparently, I’m really good at it.

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No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.

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I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.

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I incline to an aristocratic republic. This would satisfy the ambitious spirit among our people. We shall learn from the historic mistakes of others in the same way as we learn from our own; for we are a modern nation and wish to be the most modern in the world.

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If you are going to tell people the truth, you had better make them laugh or they will kill you.

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