Patriotism is "a very definite feeling of preference for one's own people or State above all other peoples and States, and a consequent wish to get for that people or State the greatest advantages and power that can be got - things which are obtainable only at the expense of the advantages and power of other peoples or States."

I ask one thing only: I ask for the right to hope, to suffer as I do. But if even that cannot be, command me to disappear, and I disappear. You shall not see me if my presence is distasteful to you.

It is no sin to look at a nice girl.

I ask one thing: I ask the right to hope and suffer as I do now." Vronsky

What an immense mass of evil must result...from allowing men to assume the right of anticipating what may happen.

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

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