Childhood, Youth and Exile Quotes

“The Russian system of justice and police is so haphazard, so inhuman, so arbitrary and corrupt, that a poor malefactor has more reason to fear his trial than his sentence. He is impatient for the time when he will be sent to Siberia; for his martyrdom comes to an end when his punishment begins.”
― Alexander Herzen, Childhood, Youth and Exile

“To see oneself in print is one of the strongest artificial passions of an age corrupted by books. But it requires courage, nevertheless, to venture on a public exhibition of one's productions.”
― Alexander Herzen, Childhood, Youth and Exile

“Together with a monopoly in everything else, the Government in Russia has assumed a monopoly of nonsense; ordering everyone to be silent, it chatters itself without ceasing.”
― Alexander Herzen, Childhood, Youth and Exile