Hadji Murád Quotes

“What energy!' I thought. 'Man has conquered everything, and destroyed millions of plants, yet this one won't submit.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Hadji Murád

“The constant, obvious flattery, contrary to all evidence, of the people around him [Tsar Nicholas I] had brought him to the point that he no longer saw his contradictions, no longer conformed his actions and words to reality, logic, or even simple common sense, but was fully convinced that all his orders, however senseless, unjust, and inconsistent with each other, became sensible, just, and consistent with each other only because he gave them.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Hadji Murád

“No one spoke of hatred of the Russians. the feeling experienced by all the Chechens, from the youngest to the oldest, was stronger than hate. It was not hatred, for they did not regard those Russian dogs as human beings, but it was such repulsion, disgust, and perplexity at the senseless cruelty of these creatures, that the desire to exterminate them — like the desire to exterminate rats, poisonous spiders, or wolves — was as natural an instinct as that of self-preservation.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Hadji Murat

“The dog gave the meat to the ass and the ass gave hay to the dog and both went hungry”
― Leo Tolstoy, Hadji Murád

“Peluru, kamu panas, dan kamu membawa kematian, tetapi bukankah kamu abdiku yang setia? Tanah hitam, kamu akan menyelimutiku, tetapi bukankah aku menginjakmu dengan kudaku? Kamu, maut, kamu dingin, tetapi akulah tuanmu.Tanah akan mengambil tubuhku, langit akan mengambil jiwaku.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Hadji Murád

“This praise of his strategic abilities was especially pleasing to [Tsar] Nicholas, because, though he was proud of his strategic abilities, at the bottom of his heart he was aware that he had none. And now he wanted to to hear more detailed praise of himself.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Hadji Murád

“All this was as it should be, because welfare and happiness of the world depended on him, and wearied though he was he would still not refuse universe the assistence.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Hadji Murád

“Decision it was only necessary for him to concentrate his attention for a few moments and the spirit moved him, and the best possible decision presented itself as though an inner voice had told him what to do.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Hadji Murád

“It is in the mountains that the eagles dwell”
― Leo Tolstoy, Hadji Murád

“He had great faith in his own fortune. When planning anything he always felt in advance firmly convinced of success and fate smiled to him.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Hadji Murád

“How many different plant-lives man destroys to support his own existence - I thought!”
― Leo Tolstoy, Hadji Murád

“He [Tsar Nicholas I] had done much evil to the Poles. To explain that evil he had to be convinced that all Poles were scoundrels. And Nicholas regarded them as such and hated them in proportion to the evil he had done them.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Hadji Murád

“That debauchery was not a good thing in a married man did not even occur to him [Tsar Nicholas I], and he would have been very surprised if anyone had condemned him for it. But, even though he was convinced that he had acted as he ought, he was left with some sort of unpleasant aftertaste, and, to stifle that feeling, he began thinking about something that always soothed him: about what a great man he was.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Hadji Murád

“In the service, especially in the complicated situation such as this, it is difficult not to say impossible, to follow any one straight path without risking mistakes and without accepting
responsibility, but once a path seems to be the right one I must follow it, happen what may.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Hadji Murád

“I threw it away feeling sorry to have vainly destroyed a flower that looked beautiful in its proper place. How many different plant lives man destroys to support his own existence.”
― Leo tolstoy, Hadji Murád

“Elena Pavlovna was for him [Tsar Nicholas I] the personification of those empty people who talked not only about science and poetry, but also about governing people, imagining that they could govern themselves better than he, Nicholas, governed them.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Hadji Murád

“Yes, what would Russia be without me?" he [Tsar Nicholas I] said to himself, again sensing the approach of the unpleasant feeling. "Yes, what would, not just Russia, but Europe be without me?" And he remembered his brother-in-law, the king of Prussia, and his weakness and stupidity and shook his head.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Hadji Murád

“كانت لشجيرة (التتري) ثلاثة أغصان، وكان أحدها مقطوعاً وما تبقى من الغصن يتدلى كيدٍ مقطوعة، وكان على كل من الغصنين الآخرين زهرة. كانت الزهرتان حمراوين ذات يوم، أما الآن فهما سوداوان. وكان أحد الغصنين مكسوراً ونصفه متدلياً إلى أسفل مع زهرةٍ متسخةٍ في طرفه؛ أما الغصن الآخر فكان لايزال منتصباً، رغم أنه ملطخ بالوحل الأسود. وكان واضحاً أن عجلة عربة مرت على النبتة مرارا، ثم انتصبت ثانية ولذلك كانت مائلة، ولكن منتصبة رغم ذلك. كأنما أقتلعت قطعة من جسدها، وانتزعت أحشاؤها، وقطعت يدها، وفقئت عينها، لكنها ظلت واقفة ولم تستسلم للإنسان الذي يبيد كل إخوته من حوله.
قلت في نفسي: ((يالها من قدرة! لقد انتصر الإنسان على كل شيء وأباد ملايين النباتات، فيما هذه النبته لاتزال صامدة ولم تستسلم!))”
― Leo Tolstoy, Hadji Murád

“It was futile class of people who discussed not merely science and poetry but even the ways of governing men”
― Leo Tolstoy, Hadji Murád

“Where the legs have gone the hind legs must follow”
― Leo Tolstoy, Hadji Murád

“He was in a full possession of facile, refined and agreeable intellect which he used to maintain his power and strengthen and increase his popularity.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Hadji Murád

“Веревка хороша длинная, а речь короткая.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Хаджи-Мурат

“What a destructive, cruel being man is, how many living beings and plants he annihilates to maintain his own life.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Hadji Murád

“Of hatred for the Russians no one even spoke. The feeling that was experienced by all the Chechens, big and small, was stronger than hatred. It was not hatred, but a refusal to recognize these Russian dogs as human beings, and such loathing, disgust, and bewilderment before the absurd cruelty of these beings, that the wish to exterminate them, like the wish to exterminate rates, venomous spiders, and wolves, was as natural as the sense of self-preservation.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Hadji Murád

“Colhi um grande ramalhete de flores diversas, e ia para casa, quando notei, numa ravina, magnífica bardana carmesim em flor, daquela variedade que recebeu em nossa região o nome de “tártaro”, e que os ceifeiros sempre procuram cortar antes do centeio, mas, quando a misturam sem querer ao ceifado, atiram-na fora para não se espetarem nos espinhos. Veio-me a ideia de cortar essa bardana e pô-la no centro do ramalhete. Desci para o fundo da ravina e, depois de expulsar um zangão cabeludo, que se cravara no centro da flor e nela adormecera flácida e docemente, comecei a cortar a haste. Foi muito difícil: não só havia espinhos por todos os lados, que me picavam mesmo através do lenço em que enrolara a mão, mas também a haste era tão forte que lutei com ela uns cinco minutos, rompendo as fibras uma a uma. Quando, finalmente, arranquei a flor, a haste estava em frangalhos, e a própria flor não parecia tão fresca e bonita. E o seu alambicado grosseiro não combinava com as flores delicadas do ramalhete. Lamentei o fato de ter destruído em vão a flor que era tão atraente em seu próprio lugar, e a joguei fora. “Mas que energia e que força vital” — pensei, lembrando-me dos esforços que me foram precisos para arrancar a flor. “Com que tenacidade ela se defendeu e como vendeu caro a vida!”
― Leo Tolstoy, Hadji Murád

“The moon shone so brightly that a halo seemed to move along the road round the shadows of their heads. Butler was looking at this halo and making up his mind to tell her that he liked her as much as ever, but he did not know how to begin.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Hadji Murad

“He was filled with a buoyant sense of the joy of living, the danger of death, a wish for action, and the consciousness of being part of an immense whole directed by a single will.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Hadji Murad

“Yet though convinced that he had acted rightly, some kind of unpleasant after-taste remained, and to stifle that feeling he dwelt on a thought that always tranquilized him—the thought of his own greatness.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Hadji Murad

“In her words, her looks, her smile, her perfume, and in every movement of her body, there was something that reduced Poltorátsky to obliviousness of everything except the consciousness of her nearness, and he made blunder after blunder, trying his partner’s temper more and more.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Hadji Murad

“What’s war? You are butchers, and that’s all there is to it.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Hadji Murád