Quote by Alexander Herzen
There is nothing in the world more stubborn than a corpse: you can

There is nothing in the world more stubborn than a corpse: you can hit it, you can knock it to pieces, but you cannot convince it. – Alexander Herzen

Other quotes by 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

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Beauty
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Would it be possible to stand still on one spot more majestically — while simulating a triumphant march forward — than it is done by the two English Houses of Parliament? – Alexander Herzen

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Parliament
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Tradition
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Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes — our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking around. – G. K. Chesterton

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Tradition

As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead. – Allan Bloom

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Tradition

People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things. – Richard Buckminster Fuller

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Tradition

Im an old-fashioned guy… I want to be an old man with a beer belly sitting on a porch, looking at a lake or something. – Johnny Depp

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Tradition

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There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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Theres evidence of a social decline in direct proportion to technology and the industrialization of the motion picture industry. – Mark Rydell

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I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it. – Lou Holtz

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