Yaroslav Trofimov Quotes

If you are an eighteen or nineteen-year-old with little education, as is often the case, and you're put in charge of many, many people on the other end of the world, you have absolute power and you're not prepared for it.

Yaroslav Trofimov

Quotes to Explore

Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.

Rabindranath Tagore
- Truth
- Hand
- Grip
Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.

Samuel Butler
- Man
- Sound
- Wine
Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent.

Ingrid Newkirk
Only together do Europe and the U.S. stand a chance of keeping liberal democracy as the central doctrine for organizing world affairs.

Victor Ponta
- World
- Together
- Democracy
Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?

Walt Whitman
- Great
- You
- Learning
Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.

Warren Bennis
- People
- Change
- Best