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| We could hardly believe that after so many ordeals, after all the trials of modern scepticism, there was still so much left in our souls to destroy. | Alexander Herzen | 1812-1870, Russian Journalist, Political Thinker |
| It is possible to lead astray an entire generation, to strike it blind, to drive it insane, to direct it towards a false goal. Napoleon proved this. | Alexander Herzen | 1812-1870, Russian Journalist, Political Thinker |
| Liberalism, austere in political trifles, has learned ever more artfully to unite a constant protest against the government with a constant submission to it. | Alexander Herzen | 1812-1870, Russian Journalist, Political Thinker |
| Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live. | Alexander Herzen | 1812-1870, Russian Journalist, Political Thinker |
| I am truly horrified by modern man. Such absence of feeling, such narrowness of outlook, such lack of passion and information, such feebleness of thought. | Alexander Herzen | 1812-1870, Russian Journalist, Political Thinker |
| Would it be possible to stand still on one spot more majestically -- while simulating a triumphant march forward -- than it is done by the two English Houses of Parliament? | Alexander Herzen | 1812-1870, Russian Journalist, Political Thinker |
| You can no more bridle passions with logic than you can justify them in the law courts. Passions are facts and not dogmas. | Alexander Herzen | 1812-1870, Russian Journalist, Political Thinker |
| Human development is a form of chronological unfairness, since late-comers are able to profit by the labours of their predecessors without paying the same price. | Alexander Herzen | 1812-1870, Russian Journalist, Political Thinker |
| No one is to blame. It is neither their fault nor ours. It is the misfortune of being born when a whole world is dying. | Alexander Herzen | 1812-1870, Russian Journalist, Political Thinker |
| All religions have based morality on obedience, that is to say, on voluntary slavery. That is why they have always been more pernicious than any political organization. For the latter makes use of violence, the former -- of the corruption of the will. | Alexander Herzen | 1812-1870, Russian Journalist, Political Thinker |
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| We have wasted our spirit in the regions of the abstract and general just as the monks let it wither in the world of prayer and contemplation. | Alexander Herzen | 1812-1870, Russian Journalist, Political Thinker |
| Science, which cuts its way through the muddy pond of daily life without mingling with it, casts its wealth to right and left, but the puny boatmen do not know how to fish for it. | Alexander Herzen | 1812-1870, Russian Journalist, Political Thinker |
| Slavery is the first step towards civilization. In order to develop it is necessary that things should be much better for some and much worse for others, then those who are better off can develop at the expense of others. | Alexander Herzen | 1812-1870, Russian Journalist, Political Thinker |
| Unaware of the absurdity of it, we introduce our own petty household rules into the economy of the universe for which the life of generations, peoples, of entire planets, has no importance in relation to the general development. | Alexander Herzen | 1812-1870, Russian Journalist, Political Thinker |
| There is nothing in the world more stubborn than a corpse: you can hit it, you can knock it to pieces, but you cannot convince it. | Alexander Herzen | 1812-1870, Russian Journalist, Political Thinker |
| What breadth, what beauty and power of human nature and development there must be in a woman to get over all the palisades, all the fences, within which she is held captive! | Alexander Herzen | 1812-1870, Russian Journalist, Political Thinker |
