"Russia will one day be ruled by such toads and crocodiles as were unknown even in Spain under the Inquisition. Yes, you just wait. Narrowmindedness, enormous pretensions, excessive self-importance, a total absence of any literary or social conscience: these things will do their work . . . will generate an atmosphere so stifling that every healthy person will be nauseated."
- Anton Chekhov
"Russia will one day be ruled by such toads and crocodiles as were unknown even in Spain under the Inquisition. Yes, you just wait. Narrowmindedness, enormous pretensions, excessive self-importance, a total absence of any literary or social conscience: these things will do their work . . . will generate an atmosphere so stifling that every healthy person will be nauseated."
- Anton Chekhov