Dmitry Pisarev famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

So easily do weak men put in high positions turn villains.
-- Dmitry Pisarev

#Freedom #Men #Villain
But what is to be done? Is it possible to infect ourselves on purpose just in order to have the satisfaction of dying beautifully and tranquilly? No! What is to be done? We must live while we are alive, eat dry bread if there is no roast beef, know many women if it is not possible to love a woman, and, in general, we must not dream about orange trees and palms, when under foot are snowdrifts and the cold tundra.
-- Dmitry Pisarev

#Dream #Order #Feet
The more developed a nation is, the more complete is the independence of the individual, and the safer the individual from encroachments by another.
-- Dmitry Pisarev

#Freedom #Independence #Individual
Break, beat up everything, beat and destroy! Everything that's being broken is rubbish and has no right to life! What survives is good
-- Dmitry Pisarev

#Broken #Rubbish #Break
If there is no sarcasm, there's no true love towards the mankind
-- Dmitry Pisarev

#Sarcasm #Mankind
What can be broken, should be broken.
-- Dmitry Pisarev

#Broken #Nihilism #Should

You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
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
Therefore, since the world has still Much good, but much less good than ill, And while the sun and moon endure Luck's a chance, but trouble's sure, I'd face it as a wise man would, And train for ill and not for good.
You either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain.
The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.
You have to love the guy that you play, even if you play the villain, you've got to love him.
I'm not interested in the heroes or the villains. I'm interested in playing people.
I am a villain, but I'm not your villain.
With 'Invincible', I wanted to create my own version of the Marvel or DC universe, with my own heroes and villains.

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