Obtuseness was its own defense

Confession is good for the soul, it empties the spirit making more room for sin.

But he could feel nothing but disdain for the artificial class of the merchant, who sucks up his living through buying and selling things he does not create, who collects power and wealth out of proportion to his discrimination, and who is responsible for all that is kitsch, for all that is change without progress, for all that is consumption without use.

Zevk, okuma ve rahatlık yeterliydi Nicholai için. (...) Eğlence gibi bir uyuşturucu maddeye de gereksinim duymuyordu.

Sıkılmak ve kızmak benim dostumun kullandığı duygulardan değildir.

It is a truism of American politics that no man who can win an election deserves to.