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You can no...
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You can no more bridle passions with logic than you can justify them in the law courts. Passions are facts and not dogmas.
Source: My Past and Thoughts, vol. 2, pt. 5, ch. 41 (1921; tr. by Constance Garnett, 1924 --27).
-- Alexander Herzen, (Apr 6 1812-1870), Russian author; He distrusted governments, was sceptical of western democratic forms, and had great faith in the power of peasants and other ordinary people to organise themselves.