From the Other Shore & The Russian People and Socialism Quotes

“We think the purpose of a child is to grow up because it does grow up. But its purpose is to play, to enjoy itself, to be a child. If we merely look to the end of the process, the purpose of life is death”
― Alexander Herzen, From the Other Shore & The Russian People and Socialism

“I am truly horrified by modern man. Such absence of feeling, such narrowness of outlook, such lack of passion and information, such feebleness of thought.”
― Alexander Herzen, From the Other Shore & The Russian People and Socialism