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Alexander Herzen
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“Personal freedom is a magnificent thing; by it and by it alone can a nation achieve its true freedom. Man must respect and honor his freedom in himself no less than in his neighbor or in the people at large.”
Alexander Herzen (1812–1870) first seen 1700 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter from Paris to His Friend in Moscow (March 1st, 1849), Imperial Russia, A Sourcebook 1700-1917
“The peasants will be emancipated if there is a future for Rus and for the Slavic world.”
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Recorded in: Appeal to Nobles", (June 1853), Imperial Russia, A Source Book 1700-1917
“An empire that cannot distance itself from such a gruesome sin that so deeply affects its internal structure does not have the right to education, to future development and participation in history.”
Alexander Herzen (1812–1870) first seen 1700 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Appeal to Nobles", (June 1853), Imperial Russia, A Source Book 1700-1917
“Без равенства нет брака. Жена, исключённая из всех интересов, занимающих её мужа, чуждая им, не делящая их, — наложница, экономка, нянька, но не жена в полном, в благородном значении слова.”
Alexander Herzen (1812–1870) first seen 1840 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Translated by Constance Garnett, revised by Humphrey Higgins, My Past and Thoughts: The Memoirs of Alexander Herzen, vol. 2 (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1968) Part IV: Moscow, Petersburg and Novgorod 1840–1847 (p. 618)
“I have a sincere pity for any nation where old heads grow on young shoulders; youth is a matter, not only of years, but of temperament.”
Alexander Herzen (1812–1870) said by 1870 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A religion of life had come to replace a religion of penance and emaciation, of fasting and prayer. The crucified body had risen in its turn and was no longer abashed Man had reached a harmonious unity: he had discovered that he is a single being not made, like a pendulum, of two different metals,= that check each other; he realised that the foe in his members had ceased to exist.”
Alexander Herzen (1812–1870) said by 1870 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Socialism and rationalism are to this day the touchstones of humanity, the rocks which lie in the course of revolution and science. Groups of swimmers, driven by reflection or the waves of circumstance against these rocks, break up at once into two camps, which, under different disguises, remain the same throughout all history, and may be distinguished either in a great political party or in a group of a dozen young men. One represents logic; the other, history: one stands for dialectics; the other for evolution. Truth is the main object of the former, and feasibility of the latter.”
Alexander Herzen (1812–1870) said by 1870 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is no art more akin to mysticism than architecture. Abstract, geometrical, musical and yet dumb, passionless, it depends entirely upon symbolism, form and suggestion. Simple lies, and the harmonious combination and numerical relations between these, present something mysterious and at the same time incomplete.”
Alexander Herzen (1812–1870) said by 1870 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is both painful and shameful to be a slave. But it is even more distressing and painful to acknowledge that our slavery is necessary and normal and that it is a natural phenomenon. A great sin rests on our souls. We have inherited it but are not responsible for it. We are keeping our inheritance unjustly. Like a heavy rock it pushes us to the bottom, and with it around our necks we cannot swim. WE are slaves because our forefathers sold their human dignity for inhuman rights which we now enjoy. We are slaves because we are the masters. We are slaves because we are nobles, that is, nobles without any faith in our tights. We are slaves because we hold our brothers in slavery. They are our equals in birth, blood and language. We will never enjoy freedom as long as the wretched conditions of serfdom oppress us and as long as the hideous shameful, and totally unjust slavery of our peasants exists among us.”
Alexander Herzen (1812–1870) first seen 1700 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Appeal to Nobles", (June 1853), Imperial Russia, A Source Book 1700-1917
“We were a small group of college friends who kept together after our course was over, and continued to share the same views and the same ideals. Not one of us thought of his future career or financial position. I should not praise this attitude in grown-up people, but I value it highly in a young man. Except where it is dried up by the corrupting influence of vulgar respectability, youth is everywhere unpractical, and is especially bound to be so in a young country which has many ideals and has realised few of them. Besides, the unpractical sphere is not always a fool's paradise: every aspiration for the figure involves some degree of imagination; and , but for unpractical people, practical life would never get beyond a tiresome repetition of the old routine.”
Alexander Herzen (1812–1870) said by 1870 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source