Nikolay Dobrolyubov famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Democracy is not something you believe in or a place to hang your hat, but it's something you do. You participate. If you stop doing it, democracy crumbles.

  • The story of man is the history, first, of the acceptance and imposition of restraints necessary to permit communal life; and second, of the emancipation of the individual within that system of necessary restraints.

  • Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought

  • What I say is that, if a fellow really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.

  • Everyone likes talking about himself. - Hercule Poirot

  • A person only likes his friend to the degree he or she relates and connects to his character.

  • A dialogue among civilizations can be seen as a dialogue between the individual and the universal.

  • Possessions of this world have not been for the exclusive use by such or such category of individuals.

  • When love ceases to be tragic it is something else and the individual again throws himself in search of tragedy.

  • Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.