We must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening.

Why does man have reason if he can only be influenced by violence?

My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat.

Stepan Arkadyevitch had not chosen his political opinions or his views; these political opinions and views had come to him of themselves, just as he did not choose the shapes of his hat and coat, but simply took those that were being worn.

It is a rude feeling, because it is natural only to people standing on the lowest level of morality, and expecting from other nations such outrages as they themselves are ready to inflict.

There is trouble with a wife, but it's even worse with a woman who is not a wife.

The happiness of men consists in life. And life is in labor.