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Nihilist

noun
1.
Someone who rejects all theories of morality or religious belief.
2.
An advocate of anarchism.  Synonyms: anarchist, syndicalist.





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"Nihilist" Quotes from Famous Books



... deadly; and any agnostic who wishes to be anything more than a Nihilist must sympathise with one version of nature or the other. The God of Meredith is impersonal; but he is often more healthy and kindly than any of the persons. That of Thomas Hardy is almost made personal by the intense feeling ...
— The Victorian Age in Literature • G. K. Chesterton
... Sportsman," he attacks bondage. And when it was abolished, and when in the very heart of Russian society, among the younger generation, the revolutionists appeared, Turgenev attempted to paint these "new men." Thus in his novel, "Fathers and Sons," he sketches in bold strokes the character of the nihilist Bazarov. This celebrated type cannot, however, be considered a true representative of the mentality of the "new men," for it gave only a few aspects of their character, which, besides, did ...
— Contemporary Russian Novelists • Serge Persky
... their minds, to educate their children—in short, to become prosperous and civilized, I sympathize with them, and hope they will succeed. I have not the slightest sympathy with those that wish to accomplish all these objects through brute force. A Nihilist may be forgiven in Russia—may even be praised in Russia; a Socialist may be forgiven in Germany; and certainly a Home-ruler can be pardoned in Ireland, but in the United States there is no place for Anarchist, Socialist or ...
— The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume VIII. - Interviews • Robert Green Ingersoll
... that crooked little Felix Poluski, ex-Nihilist, the wildest firebrand ever driven out of Warsaw, and the only living artist who could put on canvas the gleam of heaven that lights the Virgin's face in the "Immaculate Conception," should justify his nickname of Le Bourdon ...
— A Son of the Immortals • Louis Tracy


Words linked to "Nihilist" :   Sacco, anarchist, tucker, Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin, Nicola Sacco, nonreligious person, Kropotkin, Benjamin Ricketson Tucker, radical, Prince Peter Kropotkin, Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Bakunin, Emma Goldman, Mikhail Bakunin, Vanzetti, Goldman, syndicalist, Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin, nihilism


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