Anatoly Lunacharsky Quotes

Now that the great revolution has come one feels that however intelligent Lenin may be he begins to fade beside the genius of Trotsky

Nixon was kind of a loner, he had a cold personality.

My father was convinced, I think rightly, that if he stayed in Russia, he would have trouble with Lenin.

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, and he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.

Yesterday Kerensky; today Lenin and Trotsky; another tomorrow.

My position is unique in history. I have not a single supporter here.

The Spanish Lenin

Trotsky has earned it by his brilliant and unflagging work

I was very much disturbed by Lenin's political ruthlessness

Washington can be a very lonely place for Congressman and Senators. Many acquaintances almost all of whom want something and very few friends.

We should be asking the hard questions that mean you may not have any friends at all—and some of us don’t.

… the great mischief-maker Lenin

The neighbors hate me.

The Soviet Union was pretty much what Lenin and Trotsky said it was.

The loneliness of the man is slowly being borne in upon me. There is not a man aboard but hates or fears him, nor is there a man whom he does not despise.

Nowadays the host does not admit you to his hearth, but has got the mason to build one for yourself somewhere in his alley, and hospitality is the art of keeping you at the greatest distance.

I am dead to them, even though I once flowered.

I don’t want to be a lonely governor.

In all her intercourse with society, however, there was nothing that made her feel as if she belonged to it... She stood apart from mortal interests, yet close beside them, like a ghost that revisits the familiar fireside, and can no longer make itself seen or felt.

The condition of leadership adds new degrees of solitariness to the basic solitude of mankind. Every order that we issue increases the extent to which we are alone, and every show of deference which is extended to us separates us from our fellows.

I didn't like anybody in that school. I think they knew that. I think that's why they disliked me. I didn't like the way they walked or looked or talked, but I didn't like my mother or father either. I still had the feeling of being surrounded by white empty space. There was always a slight nausea in my stomach.

Stephen Blackpool fall into the loneliest of lives, the life of solitude among a familiar crowd. The stranger in the land who looks into ten thousand faces for some answering look and never finds it, is in cheering society as compared with him who passes ten averted faces daily, that were once the countenances of friends

The hollowness was in his arms and the world was snowing.

I felt a tremendous distance between myself and everything real.

What have I to do with millions [of people]? The eighty I know despise me.