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To: THE ANT who wrote (129801)2/5/2017 3:00:43 AM
From: Elroy Jetson  Read Replies (1) of 219140
 
Mikhail Bakunin en.wikiquote.org and Maximilien Robespierre en.wikiquote.org would have approved of that sentiment.

Alexander Herzen had reservations. azquotes.com goodreads.com as there's no call for a cure worse than the disease.

I've inherited Herzen genes. Similar to Anton Chekhov who said - Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

Tom Stoppard in his 2002 3-part play "Coast of Utopia" had some additional quotes - en.wikiquote.org

The Coast of Utopia: Shipwreck (2002)
  • Herzen: Marx is a bourgeois from the anus up.
    Natalie : Alexander! I won't have that word...
    Herzen: Sorry, middle-class.
  • Bakunin: Act first! The ideas will follow, and if not — well, it's progress.
  • Turgenev: The names for things don't come first. Words stagger after, hopelessly trying to become the sensation.
The Coast of Utopia: Salvage (2002)
  • Herzen: Their coarseness is the sinew of some kind of brute confidence which is the reason England is home to every shade of political exile. They don't give asylum out of respect for asylum-seekers, but out of respect for themselves. They invented personal liberty, and they know it, and they did it without having any theories about it. They value liberty because it's liberty.
  • Bakunin: Left to themselves people are noble, generous, uncorrupted, they'd create a completely new kind of society if only people weren't so blind, stupid and selfish.
  • Herzen: Is that the same people or different people?
  • Bakunin: The same people.
  • Turgenev: Wake me up for breakfast, if I'm not dead.
If you're interested I highly recommend "The Romantic Exiles" written by British Diplomat to the Soviet Union E. H. Carr - smile.amazon.com
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