Pyotr Chaadayev famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy

  • As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

  • The Empress has been connected with the ideas of universal fecundity and in a general sense with activity.

  • My idea of the perfect bottom would be nice, bubbly, curvy, firm, maybe a little bit bouncy.

  • I want to leave my readers with a sequence of ideas/phrases that makes them question something they'd taken for granted. Or that confuses them to the point that they laugh, but contains one or two phrases/lines that stick in their minds.

  • Together, these advocates create a pro-Israeli case so compelling that the idea and reality of Israel has worked itself deep into American culture, politics and foreign policy. Many American Jews refuse to accept it, but the real debate between Israel’s supporters and detractors in America is all but over.

  • And yet the world we live in-its divisions and conflicts, its widening gap between rich and poor, its seemingly inexplicable outbursts of violence-is shaped far less by what we celebrate and mythologize than by the painful events we try to forget. Leopold's Congo is but one of those silences of history.

  • Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, in no event may my image or name or any music or any artistic property created by me be used for advertising purposes

  • It's customary when great events happen that the U.S. punishes its friends and rewards its enemies.

  • Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't - surrender to events with hope.