23 Quotations by Alexander Herzen
- 1. A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of ...

- 2. All religions have based morality on obedience, that is to say, on voluntary slavery. That is why th ...

- 3. Education at school continues what has been done at home: it crystallizes the optical illusion, cons ...

- 4. Every man who has lived for fifty years has buried a whole world or even two; he has grown used to i ...

- 5. Human development is a form of chronological unfairness, since late-comers are able to profit by the ...

- 6. I am truly horrified by modern man. Such absence of feeling, such narrowness of outlook, such lack o ...

- 7. If nations always moved from one set of furnished rooms to another -- and always into a better set - ...

- 8. It is possible to lead astray an entire generation, to strike it blind, to drive it insane, to direc ...

- 9. Liberalism, austere in political trifles, has learned ever more artfully to unite a constant protest ...

- 10. Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

- 11. No one is to blame. It is neither their fault nor ours. It is the misfortune of being born when a wh ...

- 12. People who have realized that this is a dream imagine that it is easy to wake up, and are angry with ...

- 13. Science, which cuts its way through the muddy pond of daily life without mingling with it, casts its ...

- 14. Science, which cuts its way through the muddy pond of daily life without mingling with it, casts its ...

- 15. Slavery is the first step towards civilization. In order to develop it is necessary that things shou ...

- 16. There is nothing in the world more stubborn than a corpse: you can hit it, you can knock it to piece ...

- 17. This socialism will develop in all its phases until it reaches its own extremes and absurdities. The ...

- 18. Unaware of the absurdity of it, we introduce our own petty household rules into the economy of the u ...

- 19. We could hardly believe that after so many ordeals, after all the trials of modern skepticism, there ...

- 20. We have wasted our spirit in the regions of the abstract and general just as the monks let it wither ...

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