History is the autobiography of a madman

History is the autobiography of a madman.

More Quotes from Alexander Herzen:

What breadth, what beauty and power of human nature and development there must be in a woman to get over all the palisades, all the fences, within which she is held captive!
Alexander Herzen

It must not be thought that the cowardly feeling of caution and uneasy self-preservation is innate in the English character.

It is the consequence of a corpulence derived from wealth and of the training of all thoughts and passions for acquisitiveness.
Alexander Herzen

We could hardly believe that after so many ordeals, after all the trials of modern skepticism, there was still so much left in our souls to destroy.
Alexander Herzen

Slavery is the first step towards civilization.

In order to develop it is necessary that things should be much better for some and much worse for others, then those who are better off can develop at the expense of others.
Alexander Herzen

If nations always moved from one set of furnish