Neka žive kako hoće, a ja ću živeti kako ja hoću. Ja ne mogu biti drukčija… I sve bi trebalo da je drukčije, sve… Ja ne mogu živeti drukčije nego po … - Leo Tolstoy

Those attacks upon language and religion in Poland, the Baltic provinces, Alsace, Bohemia, upon the Jews in Russia, in every place that such acts of violence occur—in what name have they been, and are they, perpetrated? In none other than the name of that patriotism which you defend. Ask our savage Russifiers of Poland and the Baltic provinces, ask the persecutors of the Jews, why they act thus. They will tell you it is in defence of their native religion and language; they will tell you that if they do not act thus, their religion and language will suffer—the Russians will be Polonised, Teutonised, Judaised.

Millions of men, renouncing their human feelings and reason, had to go from west to east to slay their fellows, just as some centuries previously hordes of men had come from the east to the west slaying their fellows.

He felt himself, and did not want to be anyone else. All he wanted now was to be better than before.