The march of humanity, springing as it does from an infinite multitude of individual wills, is continuous.

It is not enough to be a hardworking person. Think: what do you work at?

For if we allow that human life is always guided by reason, we destroy the premise that life is possible at all.

With one hand I take thousands of rubles from the poor, and with the other I hand back a few kopecks.

It seems as though mankind has forgotten the laws of its divine Saviour, Who preached love and forgiveness of injuries—and that men attribute the greatest merit to skill in killing one another.

Then we should find some artificial inoculation against love, as with smallpox.

At one time,' Golenishchev continued, either not observing or not willing to observe that both Anna and Vronsky wanted to speak, 'at one time a freethinker was a man who had been brought up in the conception of religion, law, and morality, who reached freethought only after conflict and difficulty. But now a new type of born freethinkers has appeared, who grow up without so much as hearing that there used to be laws of morality, or religion, that authorities existed. They grow up in ideas of negation in everything - in other words, utter savages.