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Heroes and crowd
Mikhailovsky N.K.
Phraseologism: Heroes and crowd.
Meaning: It is usually used in an ironic sense to address politicians (the "political elite" of society), who see their fellow citizens (voters) only as a means to achieve their personal goals.
Origin: The title of an article (1882) by Nikolai Konstantinovich Mikhailovsky (1842-1904), a literary critic, sociologist, and theorist of liberal populism, who argued that only individuals make history. outstanding personalities, "heroes", and all the rest ("crowd") only follow them, realizing their ideas and fulfilling their will.
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On that I stand, and I can not do otherwise.
Meaning:
About confidence in the truth of one's point of view on something, about unwillingness to change it, about loyalty to one's principles, beliefs.
Origin:
The words of the German religious reformer, the founder of Protestantism Martin Luther (1483-1546), the first translator of the Bible into the German literary language. According to legend, Luther uttered these words (April 18, 1521) at the Worms Congress of Church Hierarchs in response to a proposal to abandon the fight against the papal throne. The reason for the conflict was that Martin Luther believed that the spiritual life of a Christian should be based on independent study of the Bible, and not on the interpretation of the Pope. |
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