Character: Ivan Pavlovich Shatov

Reason and science in the life of peoples have always, now and since the beginning of centuries, performed only a secondary and service position; and so it will be done until the end of time. Nations are formed and moved by a different force, commanding and dominating, but the origin of which is unknown and inexplicable.

We Russians are small children before the Americans, and we need to be born in America, or at least get used to the Americans for many years in order to become on a level with them.

... I do know that I'm unhappy, boring book and nothing more for the time being, for the time being... But perish my name! It's in you, not me... I'm a man without talent and I can only give my blood and nothing more, like every man without talent.

But you need the hare.
- What about?
- Your own vile expression Shatov laughed spitefully, sitting down again - "to make the sauce, hare, hare, it is necessary to believe in God, need God."

... I could not immediately break with blood from what has grown since childhood, what went on the enthusiasm of all my hopes and all the tears of my hatred... it is Difficult to change gods.

We are two creatures and come together in infinity... for the last time in the world. Express your tone and speak like a human! Speak for once in your life with a human voice.

You are an atheist because you barich, barich last. Have you lost the distinction of good and evil, because they no longer his people to know.

Our Russian liberal first of all a lackey and just looks as if someone's boots to clean.

- Neither Russia nor the people! - yelled and Shatov in his eyes; you can't love what you don't know and they do the Russian people didn't understand it! All of them, and you with them, watched Russian people through their fingers, and Belinsky especially; much of the his letter to Gogol is seen. Belinsky just like Krylov Curious did not notice the elephant in the Kunstkammer, and all attention turned to the French social insects; and so committed them. And he is, perhaps, all of you were smarter! You not only saw some of the people you disgusting contempt he was treated, certainly by the one that under the people you imagined only one French people, and that some of the Parisians, and were ashamed that the Russian people are not like that. And that's the naked truth! And who has no people has no God! Know for certain that all those who cease to understand their own people and lose him his respect, immediately, as soon lose the faith of the fathers, or become atheists or indifferent. True say! It is a fact that will come true. That's why you all, and we are all now - or vile atheists or indifferent, depraved rubbish, and nothing more!

first ... they would be terribly unhappy if Russia somehow suddenly regrouped, even if only on their way, and somehow suddenly became immensely rich and happy. Nobody would they then to hate, no one cares, not something to scoff! There is only one animal, infinite hatred of Russia, into the body of ingrained...

God is the synthetic personality of the whole people, taken him first to the end. Never been to all or many Nations had one common God, but each was special. A sign of the destruction of peoples, when gods start becoming common. When the gods become common, the dying, the gods and faith in them along with the peoples themselves. The more people, osoblyve his God.

Get God's work!

You cannot love what you don't know!