Alexander Herzen Quotes - Page 2

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• I believe in nothing here, except a handful of people, a few ideas, and the fact that one cannot arrest movement.

  Alexander Herzen

  Believe, Ideas, People

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• [T]he departing world leaves behind... not an heir, but a pregnant widow.

  Alexander Herzen

  Widows, World, Heirs

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• Everything in Italy that is particularly elegant and grand borders upon insanity and absurdity or at least is reminiscent of childhood.

  Alexander Herzen

  Childhood, Insanity, Borders

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• Laws to suppress tend to strengthen what they would prohibit. This is the fine point on which all legal professions of history have based their job security.

  Alexander Herzen

  Jobs, Law, Liberty

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• A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away from them. Everything with them is done as though for sale, and they naturally have in view the greatest possible benefit, profit and that end of the stuff that will make the best show.

  Alexander Herzen

  Business, Ambition, Views

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• Compassionate love may be strong. It sobs, it burns, then it wipes away its tears – and it does nothing.

  Alexander Herzen

  Strong, Tears, Doe

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• 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

  Passion, Law, Facts

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• We could hardly believe that after so many ordeals, after all the trials of modern skepticism, there was still so much left in our souls to destroy.

  Alexander Herzen

  Believe, Soul, Trials

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• 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

  Two, House, Done

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• 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

  Order, Civilization, Slavery

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• It seems to me that you are solving a problem which goes beyond the limits of physiology in too simple a way. Physiology has realized its problem with fortitude, breaking man down into endless actions and counteractions and reducing him to a crossing, a vortex of reflex acts. Let it now permit sociology to restore him as a whole. Sociology will wrest man from the anatomical theatre and return him to history.

  Alexander Herzen

  Simple, Men, Theatre

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• If nations always moved from one set of furnished rooms to another -- and always into a better set -- things might be easier, but the trouble is that there is no one to prepare the new rooms. The future is worse than the ocean -- there is nothing there. It will be what men and circumstances make it.

  Alexander Herzen

  Ocean, Men, Might

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• Strong drink stupefies a man and makes it possible for him to forget; it gives him an artificial cheeriness, an artificial excitement; and the pleasure of this state is increased by the low level of civilization and the narrow empty life to which these men are confined.

  Alexander Herzen

  Strong, Men, Civilization

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• Never was Catholicism, never were the ideas of chivalry, impressed on men so deeply, so multifariously, as the bourgeois ideas.

  Alexander Herzen

  Men, Ideas, Chivalry

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• Modern Western thought will pass into history and be incorporated in it, will have its influence and its place, just as our body will pass into the composition of grass, of sheep, of cutlets, and of men.

  Alexander Herzen

  Men, Sheep, Body

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• Human development is a form of chronological unfairness, since late-comers are able to profit by the labors of their predecessors without paying the same price.

  Alexander Herzen

  Progress, Development, Able

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• It must not be thought that the cowardly feeling of caution and uneasy self-preservation is innate in the English character. It is the consequence of a corpulence derived from wealth and of the training of all thoughts and passions for acquisitiveness.

  Alexander Herzen

  Passion, Character, Self

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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

  Prayer, World, Spirit

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