Raznochinets Quotes

#1. Indeed, nearly all attempts to exterminate a doctrine and its organizational expression, by force without spiritual foundation, are doomed to failure, and not seldom end with the exact opposite of the desired result ...

Adolf Hitler

#2. What I had wasn't enough. I wanted more than enough.

Jay McLean

#3. I never liked feeling like the world needed to have labels on everything, whether it's people or categories of music. I think everyone should be what they want to be, and you shouldn't have to look a certain way in order to fit this mold or that mold.

Lindsey Stirling

#4. The human body is not a thing or a substance, given, but a continuous creation.

Norman O. Brown

#5. Civilization rests on two things: the discovery that fermentation produces alcohol, and the voluntary ability to inhibit defecation. And I put it to you, where would this splendid civilization be without both?

Robertson Davies

#6. A raznochinets needs no memory - it is enough for him to tell of the books he has read, and his biography is done.

Osip Mandelstam

#7. Prepare for the worst, hope for the best, and expect the impossible.

Lara Whatley