Soviet Six Pack Quotes

“all this world of ours is nothing but a speck of mildew, which has grown up on a tiny planet. And for us to suppose we can have something great—ideas, work—it’s all dust and ashes." "But”
― Anton Chekhov, Soviet Six Pack

“Women, such as one sees in dreams.... Well, these women are sometimes to be met in reality ... and these women are terrible. Woman, don’t you know, is such a subject that however much you study it, it’s always perfectly new." "Well,”
― Anton Chekhov, Soviet Six Pack

“When reason fails, the devil helps!”
― Anton Chekhov, Soviet Six Pack

“she had been interested in many things, but nothing had completely satisfied her; indeed, she hardly desired complete satisfaction. Her intellect was at the same time inquiring and indifferent; her doubts were never soothed to forgetfulness, and they never grew strong enough to distract her. Had she not been rich and independent, she would perhaps have thrown herself into the struggle, and have known passion. But life was easy for her, though she was bored at times, and she went on passing day after day with deliberation, never in a hurry, placid, and only rarely disturbed.”
― Anton Chekhov, Soviet Six Pack

“People are like trees in a forest; no botanist would think of studying each individual birch-tree.' Katya,”
― Anton Chekhov, Soviet Six Pack

“Doesn't their superiority consist in there being fewer traces of the slaveowner in them than in us?' Nikolai”
― Anton Chekhov, Soviet Six Pack

“And really is there anything in the world more captivating than a beautiful young mother with a healthy baby in her arms? 'What”
― Anton Chekhov, Soviet Six Pack

“with love one can live even without happiness.”
― Anton Chekhov, Soviet Six Pack

“That's what's wrong, that you don't think.”
― Anton Chekhov, Soviet Six Pack

“I look upon you as so many pawns, as inanimate pawns.”
― Anton Chekhov, Soviet Six Pack

“there was no one like me and I was unlike any one else. "I am alone and they are every one," I thought—and pondered. From”
― Anton Chekhov, Soviet Six Pack

“They were all stupid, and as like one another as so many sheep.”
― Anton Chekhov, Soviet Six Pack

“Perhaps he is just as fond of suffering? Perhaps suffering is just as great a benefit to him as well-being?”
― Anton Chekhov, Soviet Six Pack

“I believe that the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped.”
― Anton Chekhov, Soviet Six Pack

“civilization has made mankind if not more bloodthirsty, at least more vilely, more loathsomely bloodthirsty.”
― Anton Chekhov, Soviet Six Pack

“a man revenges himself because he sees justice in it.”
― Anton Chekhov, Soviet Six Pack

“Can a man of perception respect himself at all?”
― Anton Chekhov, Soviet Six Pack

“there is an ache in you, and the more you do not know, the worse the ache.”
― Anton Chekhov, Soviet Six Pack

“But what can a decent man speak of with most pleasure? Answer: Of himself. Well,”
― Anton Chekhov, Soviet Six Pack

“To live longer than forty years is bad manners, is vulgar, immoral.”
― Anton Chekhov, Soviet Six Pack

“wake us up and lead us to better things. Are we to leave it all to the Jews?”
― Anton Chekhov, Soviet Six Pack

“and that she had shown marked abilities in that direction, so that many people began to say that she was no better than a Jew. It was not that she lent money on interest, but it was known, for instance, that”
― Anton Chekhov, Soviet Six Pack

“therefore the idea of the service of humanity, of brotherly love and the solidarity of mankind, is more and more dying out in the world, and indeed this idea is sometimes treated with derision.”
― Anton Chekhov, Soviet Six Pack

“Nobody dies of hysterics, though. They don't matter. God gave woman hysterics as a relief.”
― Anton Chekhov, Soviet Six Pack

“God created light on the first day, and the sun, moon, and stars on the fourth day. Where did the light come from on the first day?”
― Anton Chekhov, Soviet Six Pack

“Lizaveta was a dwarfish creature, “not five foot within a wee bit,”
― Anton Chekhov, Soviet Six Pack

“There is no virtue if there is no immortality.”
― Anton Chekhov, Soviet Six Pack

“The socialist who is a Christian is more to be dreaded than a socialist who is an atheist.”
― Anton Chekhov, Soviet Six Pack

“all these sentences to exile with hard labor, and formerly with flogging also, reform no one, and what's more, deter hardly a single criminal, and the number of crimes does not diminish but is continually on the increase. You must admit that. Consequently the security of society is not preserved, for, although the obnoxious member is mechanically cut off and sent far away out of sight, another criminal always comes to take his place at once, and often two of them. If anything does preserve society, even in our time, and does regenerate and transform the criminal, it is only the law of Christ speaking in his conscience. It is only by recognizing his wrong-doing as a son of a Christian society—that is, of the Church—that he recognizes his sin against society—that is, against the Church. So that it is only against the Church, and not against the State, that the criminal of to-day can recognize that he has sinned.”
― Anton Chekhov, Soviet Six Pack

“If it were not for the Church of Christ there would be nothing to restrain the criminal from evil-doing, no real chastisement for it afterwards; none, that is, but the mechanical punishment spoken of just now, which in the majority of cases only embitters the heart; and not the real punishment, the only effectual one, the only deterrent and softening one, which lies in the recognition of sin by conscience.”
― Anton Chekhov, Soviet Six Pack