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Sociability is as much a law of nature as mutual struggle... Mutual aid is as much a law of animal life as mutual struggle.

Peter Kropotkin

1902

★ 0.9

Personal journal

Between "God exists" and "There is no God" lies a whole enormous field which a true sage has great difficulty in crossing. But a Russian knows only one of these two extremes and the middle between them doesn't interest him, which is why he knows nothing or very little... A good man's indifference is as good as any religion.

1921

★ 1.1

It is the Russians' joy to drink; we cannot do without it.

Vladimir the Great

1113

★ 1.2

I agree with no man's opinions... I have some of my own.

Fathers and Sons · 1862

★ 1.2

Truly, I think I should go mad if it weren't for music.

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

1877

★ 1.2

Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.

1897

★ 1.2

Speech · Political speech

Tolerance is the alpha and omega of a new world order.

Mikhail Gorbachev

1990

★ 1.2

Philosophical literature

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals · 1785

★ 1.3

Providence has given human wisdom the choice between two fates: either hope and agitation, or hopelessness and calm.

Yevgeny Baratynsky

1823

★ 1.9

Death is like a fisherman, who, having caught a fish in his net, leaves it in the water for a time; the fish continues to swim about, but all the while the net is round it, and the fisherman will snatch it out in his own good time.

1860

★ 1.9

Man must work by the sweat of his brow whatever his class, and that should make up the whole meaning and purpose of his life and happiness and contentment.

1901

★ 1.9

Essay · Political literature

Anarchism, then, really, stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion; the liberation of the human body from the dominion of property; liberation from the shackles and restraints of government.

1910

★ 1.9

If anyone believes that our smiles involve abandonment of the teaching of Marx, Engels and Lenin he deceives himself. Those who wait for that must wait until a shrimp learns to whistle.

Nikita Khrushchev

1955

★ 1.9

I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.

Boris Pasternak

1958

★ 1.9

Essay · Magazine · Political literature

The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.

The New Yorker · 1970

★ 1.9

Speech · Political speech

The guilt of Stalin and his immediate entourage before the Party and the people for the mass repressions and lawlessness they committed is enormous and unforgivable.

Mikhail Gorbachev

1987

★ 1.9

Although we read with our minds, the seat of artistic delight is between the shoulder blades. That little shiver behind is quite certainly the highest form of emotion that humanity has attained when evolving pure art and pure science. Let us worship the spine and its tingle.

Vladimir Nabokov

★ 1.9

Storm-clouds whirl and storm-clouds scurry; From behind them pale moonlight Flickers where the snowflakes hurry. Dark the sky and dark the night.

Alexander Pushkin

1830

★ 1.9

Better to abolish serfdom from above than to wait till it begins to abolish itself from below.

Czar Alexander II of Russia

1856

★ 1.9

If a lot of cures are suggested for a disease, it means that the disease is incurable.

1904

★ 1.9

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