Quote by Ivan Turgenev

"One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny."

Ivan Turgenev Freedom
Novelist Poet Russian 1818–1883

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