Book: Hadji Murad
Quotes of Book: Hadji Murad
The constant, obvious flattery, contrary to all evidence, of the people around him {Tsar Nicholas I} had brought him to the point that he no longer saw his contradictions, no longer conformed his actions and words to reality, logic, or even simple common sense, but was fully convinced that all his orders, however senseless, unjust, and inconsistent with each other, became sensible, just, and consistent with each other only because he gave them. book-quotenarcissismself-delusion
