Quotes by Alexander Herzen

Alexander Herzen

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

Heirs

Widows

World

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.

Ambition

Business

Views

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.

Atheism

Organization

Political

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

Doe

Strong

Tears

Every man who has lived for fifty years has buried a whole world or even two; he has grown used to its disappearance and accustomed to the new scenery of another act: but suddenly the names and faces of a time long dead appear more and more often on his way, calling up series of shades and pictures kept somewhere, “just in case,” in the endless catacombs of the memory, making him smile or sigh, and sometimes almost weep.

Memories

Men

Years

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

Borders

Childhood

Insanity

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.

Able

Development

Progress

I believe what I write to be the truth…every man who is not indifferent to the truth has a weakness for spreading it about.

Believe

Men

Writing

I have served one idea, marched under one banner – war against all imposed authority – against every kind of deprivation of freedom, in the name of the absolute independence of the individual.

Ideas

Names

War

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.

Men

Might

Ocean

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Done

Dream

Eye

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House

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Quotes by Alexander Herzen

Alexander Herzen

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

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.

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

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

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.

I believe what I write to be the truth…every man who is not indifferent to the truth has a weakness for spreading it about.

I have served one idea, marched under one banner – war against all imposed authority – against every kind of deprivation of freedom, in the name of the absolute independence of the individual.

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