"I believe in nothing here, except a handful……" — Alexander Herzen
"I believe in nothing here, except a handful of people, a few ideas, and the fact that one cannot arrest movement."
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Alexander Herzen
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41 Quotes by Alexander Herzen
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I am truly horrified by modern man. Such absence of feeling, such narrowness of outlook, such lack of passion and…
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Science even more than the Gospel teaches us humility. She cannot look down on anything, she does not know what…
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Science, which cuts its way through the muddy pond of daily life without mingling with it, casts its wealth to…
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Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.
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What breadth, what beauty and power of human nature and development there must be in a woman to get over…
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We have wasted our spirit in the regions of the abstract and general just as the monks let it wither…
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Compassionate love may be strong. It sobs, it burns, then it wipes away its tears – and it does nothing.
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History is the autobiography of a madman.
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We think the purpose of a child is to grow up because it does grow up. But its purpose is…
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Slavery is the first step towards civilization. In order to develop it is necessary that things should be much better…
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If nations always moved from one set of furnished rooms to another -- and always into a better set --…
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Liberalism, austere in political trifles, has learned ever more artfully to unite a constant protest against the government with a…
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More Arrest Quotes
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When you see a fish you don't think of its scales, do you? You think of its speed, its floating,…
— Constantin Brancusi
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Government: If you refuse to pay unjust taxes, your property will be confiscated. If you attempt to defend your property,…
— Edward Abbey
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The E.U. has moved to combat global terrorism by instituting common European arrest and evidence warrants and creating a joint…
— John Bruton
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Our youth can not understand why society chooses to criminalize a behavior with so little visible ill effect or adverse…
— Richard M. Nixon
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When afflictions arrest us, we shall murmur and grumble and struggle until we see that it is God that strikes.
— Thomas Brooks
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At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless; Neither from nor towards; at the still point,…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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It is better, so the Fourth Amendment teaches us, that the guilty sometimes go free than the citizens be subject…
— William O. Douglas
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Usually I try to be there by six. Everything has been taken off the walls so that there's nothing to…
— Toni Morrison
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In the Middle East, where populations are growing fast, the world is seeing the first collision between population growth and…
— Lester R. Brown
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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so…
— William Faulkner
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If we imagine an observer to approach our planet from outer space, and, pushing aside the belts of red-brown clouds…
— Eduard Suess
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I always get scared of traffic cops when I'm driving, like I freak out even when I'm not doing anything…
— Leelee Sobieski
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