Quotes by Vasily Grossman

Vasily Grossman

And in this silence of the dumb and these speeches of the blind, in this medly of people bound together by the same grief, terror and hope, in this hatred and lack of understanding between men who spoke the same tongue, you could see much of the tragedy of the twentieth century.

Grief

Men

People

At war a Russian man puts on a white shirt. He may live in sin, but he dies like a saint.

Men

War

White

Chekhov said: let’s put God – and all these grand progressive ideas – to one side. Let’s begin with man; let’s be kind and attentive to the individual man – whether he’s a bishop, a peasant, an industrial magnate, a convict in the Sakhalin Islands, or a waiter in a restaurant. Let’s begin with respect, compassion, and love for the individual – or we’ll never get anywhere.

Compassion

Islands

Men

Good men and bad men alike are capable of weakness. The difference is simply that a bad man will be proud all his life of one good deed – while an honest man is hardly aware of his good acts, but remembers a single sin for years on end.

Honesty

Men

Years

He was endowed with the extraordinary powers of endurance characteristic of madmen and simpletons.

Characteristics

Endurance

Madmen

Human groupings have one main purpose: to assert everyone’s right to be different, to be special, to think, feel and live in his or her own way. People join together in order to win or defend this right. But this is where a terrible, fateful error is born: the belief that these groupings in the name of a race, a God, a party or a State are the very purpose of life and not simply a means to an end. No! The only true and lasting meaning of the struggle for life lies in the individual, in his modest peculiarities and in his right to these peculiarities.

Lying

Party

Struggle

Human history is not the battle of good struggling to overcome evil. It is a battle fought by a great evil struggling to crush a small kernel of human kindness.

Crush

Kindness

Struggle

Humanity will live as long as there are humans.

Humanity

Humans

Long

I don’t believe in your “Good”. I believe in human kindness.

Believe

Humans

Kindness

I don’t want you to be young and beautiful. I only want one thing. I want you to be kind-hearted – and not just towards cats and dogs.

Beautiful

Cat

Dog

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Believe

Blood

Brother

Captivity

Cat

Characteristics

Children

Compassion

Crush

Diversity

Dog

Endurance

Enough

Essence

Evil

Father

Felt

Flower

Forget

Funeral

Generations

Goodbye

Grief

Honesty

House

Humanity

Humans

Husband

Imagine

Islands

Kindness

Long

Lying

Madmen

Memories

Men

Opposites

Our Generation

Party

People

Responsibility

Sadness

Saying Goodbye

Sea

Soul

Struggle

Taken

War

White

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Quotes by Vasily Grossman

Vasily Grossman

And in this silence of the dumb and these speeches of the blind, in this medly of people bound together by the same grief, terror and hope, in this hatred and lack of understanding between men who spoke the same tongue, you could see much of the tragedy of the twentieth century.

At war a Russian man puts on a white shirt. He may live in sin, but he dies like a saint.

Good men and bad men alike are capable of weakness. The difference is simply that a bad man will be proud all his life of one good deed – while an honest man is hardly aware of his good acts, but remembers a single sin for years on end.

He was endowed with the extraordinary powers of endurance characteristic of madmen and simpletons.

Human history is not the battle of good struggling to overcome evil. It is a battle fought by a great evil struggling to crush a small kernel of human kindness.

Humanity will live as long as there are humans.

I don’t believe in your “Good”. I believe in human kindness.

I don’t want you to be young and beautiful. I only want one thing. I want you to be kind-hearted – and not just towards cats and dogs.

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