
“Reforms in Russia are very tragic, but they always end in a farce.”
Baron Raff, Act IV
Vera; or, The Nihilists (1880)
Michael, Act I
Vera; or, The Nihilists (1880)
“Reforms in Russia are very tragic, but they always end in a farce.”
Baron Raff, Act IV
Vera; or, The Nihilists (1880)
2010s, 2016, October, Second presidential debate (October 9, 2016)
“I am in my politics for reform and nothing but reform.”
Source: Letter to Lady Holland, January 1822
“The hopes of the right-minded may be realized, those of fools are impossible.”
Source Book in Ancient Philosophy (1907), The Golden Sayings of Democritus
“There is nothing I want more than to return to Russia.”
Interview with Forbes (22 March 2013)
"Sundays of a Bourgeois"
Source: Les dimanches d'un bourgeois de Paris, et autres aventures parisiennes
“Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.”