The Man from St. Petersburg Quotes

“the ultimate truth about oppression: that it works by turning its victims against each other instead of against their oppressors. He”
― Ken Follett, The Man From St. Petersburg

“The relation of love is not the same as the relation of worship. One worships a god. Only human beings can be loved. When we worship a woman we cannot love her. Then, when we discover she is not a god, we hate her.”
― Ken Follett, The Man From St. Petersburg

“A man who has no fear can do anything he wants,”
― Ken Follett, The Man From St. Petersburg

“A transfer of power from one faction to another faction within the same class is called a coup, and this changes nothing. A transfer of power from one class to another is called a revolution, and this does change things.”
― Ken Follett, The Man From St. Petersburg

“A man who has no fear can do anything he wants, Feliks thought. He had learned that lesson eleven years ago, in a railway siding outside Omsk. It had been snowing . . .”
― Ken Follett, The Man From St. Petersburg

“... sentiments which Feliks had already come to recognise as being characteristic of The Times, which would have described the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse as strong rulers who could do nothing but good for the stability of the international situation.”
― Ken Follett, The Man from St. Petersburg

“Growing up is learning to deceive.”
― Ken Follett, The Man from St. Petersburg

“companies have been factoring debts on a vast scale, collecting cash and buying gold. A few more weeks of this and Germany will have got in everything owing to her from other countries, while leaving her debts to them outstanding—and her gold reserves will be higher than they have ever been before.” “They are preparing for war.”
― Ken Follett, The Man From St. Petersburg

“The fire of suffering whose flame is upon our sisters in prison is burning us also. For we suffer with them, we partake of their affliction, and we shall share their victory by-and-by. This fire will breathe into the ear of many a sleeper the one word ‘Awake,’ and she will arise to slumber no more. It will descend with the gift of tongues upon many who have hitherto been dumb, and they will go forth to preach the news of deliverance. Its light will be seen afar off by many who suffer and are sorrowful and oppressed, and will irradiate their lives with a new hope. For the spirit which is in women today cannot be quenched; it is stronger than all tyranny, cruelty and oppression; it is stronger—even—than—death—itself!”
― Ken Follett, The Man From St. Petersburg

“people always credit Prime Ministers with more brains than they’ve got.”
― Ken Follett, The Man From St Petersburg

“Perhaps. Still, somehow Russia must join the twentieth century. Either we, the nobility, must do it, or the people will destroy us and do it themselves.”
― Ken Follett, The Man From St Petersburg

“She shrugged. ‘Russians are so unpredictable.”
― Ken Follett, The Man From St Petersburg

“take those young men in the springtime of their lives and march them in front of cannon to be shot to pieces or maimed for ever, no doubt for the very best reasons of international diplomacy.”
― Ken Follett, The Man From St Petersburg

“—Por favor, señor, ¿es el rey de Inglaterra? El empleado sonrió. —No, amigo, solo es el conde de Walden.”
― Ken Follett, El hombre de San Petersburgo

“No se puede amar a la humanidad. Solo se puede amar a las personas. GRAHAM GREENE”
― Ken Follett, El hombre de San Petersburgo

“La comida no era tan buena como la que le servían en su casa, pero la atmósfera era muy tranquila. Los sillones del saloncito para fumadores eran antiguos y cómodos, los camareros eran mayores y lentos, el papel de la pared estaba descolorido y la pintura había perdido color. Todavía tenían luz de gas. Los hombres como Walden acudían allí porque sus casas les resultaban excesivamente limpias y femeninas. —Dijo usted que casi lo habían”
― Ken Follett, El hombre de San Petersburgo

“La relación de amor no es la misma que la de la adoración. Se adora a un dios. Solo los seres humanos pueden ser amados. Cuando adoramos a una mujer no podemos amarla. Luego, cuando descubrimos que no es un dios, la odiamos. Eso es triste. —Nunca”
― Ken Follett, El hombre de San Petersburgo

“Cómo debo vivir?». La respuesta de Tolstói era: «Tú conoces en tu corazón lo que es recto».”
― Ken Follett, El hombre de San Petersburgo

“—La moralidad de Tolstói. Hacer el bien tal vez no te haga feliz, pero hacer el mal seguro que te hará desgraciado. Ella”
― Ken Follett, El hombre de San Petersburgo

“Englishmen did not speak to strangers on trains ...”
― Ken Follett, The Man from St. Petersburg

“... people always credit prime ministers with more brains than they've got.”
― Ken Follett, The Man from St. Petersburg

“mustache, a face which”
― Ken Follett, The Man From St. Petersburg