Lindsay

“The Russian system of justice and police is so haphazard, so inhuman, so arbitrary and corrupt, that a poor malefactor has more reason to fear his trial than his sentence. He is impatient for the time when he will be sent to Siberia; for his martyrdom comes to an end when his punishment begins.”
― Alexander Herzen, Childhood, Youth and Exile

“The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.”
― Gore Vidal

“History is the autobiography of a madman.”
― Alexander Herzen

“Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.”
― Alexander Herzen