Wherever there is degeneration and apathy, there also is sexual perversion, cold depravity, miscarriage, premature old age, grumbling youth, there is a decline in the arts, indifference to science, and injustice in all its forms. – Anton Chekhov
Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something. – Anton Chekhov
Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it. – Anton Chekhov
If you cry Forward you must be sure to make clear the direction in which to go. Dont you see that if you fail to do that and simply call out the word to a monk and a revolutionary, they will go in precisely opposite directions? – Anton Chekhov
All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible. – T.E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, 1926