Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko (1814-1861), also known as Kobzar Taras, or simply Kobzar, was a Ukrainian poet, writer, artist, public and political figure, folklorist and ethnographer.
Taras Shevchenko Quotes
The evening was quiet and bright. A long strip of sea blackened on the horizon, and on its shore the rocks burned in the reddish light, and on one of the rocks the white walls of the second battery and the entire fortification glistened. I admired my seven-year prison.
—Taras Shevchenko
Amazing! A person resents the evil that comes from outside, from others, something that he cannot affect, but does not fight his own personal evil that is in his power to control.
—Taras Shevchenko
To educate a person intellectually, without raising him morally, means to grow a threat to society.
—Taras Shevchenko
Despite my sincere love for the beautiful in art and in nature, I feel an irresistible antipathy to philosophies and aesthetics.
—Taras Shevchenko
When evil is committed, a person is afraid that people will know about it, he can still find a way to good. When, having done good, a person tries to make people know about it, he gives rise to evil.
—Taras Shevchenko
A man who does evil is an enemy to himself: after all, he himself will taste the fruits of his evil.
—Taras Shevchenko
Evil people have no songs.
—Taras Shevchenko
Very smart people are not evil. Evilness a priori implies limitation and stupidity.
—Taras Shevchenko
A bad man does and will continue to do evil no matter what.
—Taras Shevchenko
Maybe good and evil have the same face. It all depends on when we encounter them on our path.
—Taras Shevchenko
A stupid person does not become good, and a good person can easily become bad.
—Taras Shevchenko
What could be more harmful than a person who has knowledge of the most complex sciences, but does not have a good heart? He will use all his knowledge for evil.
—Taras Shevchenko
Everything that does not suit us in others allows us to understand ourselves.
—Taras Shevchenko
From the anger aimed at people, as a rule, the evildoer himself suffers.
—Taras Shevchenko
I live, I study. I don’t bow to anyone and I don’t fear anyone but God. It is a great happiness to be a free person.
—Taras Shevchenko