Author of quotes: Pyotr Yakovlevich Chaadayev. Page 2

I love my country as Peter the Great taught me to love it. Alien to me, I confess, this blessed patriotism, the patriotism of laziness, who manages to see everything in pink light and worn with his illusions.

Protectee determines the future is the law of life. Renounce your past is to deny yourself of the future.

Socialism will win, not because he's right, but because no right of his opponents.

I prefer to castigate his home, prefer to disappoint her, I prefer to humiliate her, but she had not cheat.

I learned to love my homeland with my eyes closed, his head with reverence, with locked lips. I find that people can be useful to his country only if clearly sees it; I think that the time of blind loves has passed, now we are first home the truth...

We gave nothing to the world, learned nothing from it, we continue to live only in order to serve some important lessons for future generations.

Religion is the knowledge of God. Science is the knowledge of the universe. But even more basis it can be argued that religion teaches us to know God in his essence, and science - in his acts; thus, both lead to God.

Nothing drains, nothing helps to cowardice like a foolish hope.

In Moscow every foreigner driving to watch the big gun and the big bell. The gun, which can not shoot, and the bell, which fell before called.

First of all, you owe your country, and your friends - truth.

There are people who create their own mind heart, others - heart create their own mind: the last time more than the first, because the feeling is much more of the mind than in the mind of the senses.