Character: K. N. Leontiev

Oh, damn progress! Oh, fat, blood-streaked, but picturesque mountain of world history!

The divine truth of the Gospel of earthly truth did not promise, did not preach legal freedom, but only moral, spiritual freedom, available in chains.

Prosperity is earthly nonsense and impossibility; the realm of uniform and universal human truth on earth is nonsense and even offensive untruth.

Progress of equal happiness is impossible and only paves the way for greater inequality and new suffering.

Mercy, kindness, justice, selflessness, all this can only be manifested when there is grief, inequality of positions, resentment, cruelty.

Just as the suffering of Christ is redeeming, so human suffering has a meaning incomprehensible within the bounds of earthly life, but necessary for life itself.

Suffering accompanies the process of growth and development, and the process of decay in the same way. Everything hurts at the tree of human life ...

Only a society based on diversity, differentiation, and inequality is vital and beautiful. Unification and equality are fatal to society.

The humanistic state is a decaying state.