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Nihilist

noun

Someone who rejects all theories of morality or religious belief.

An advocate of anarchism. Synonyms: anarchist, syndicalist.

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"Nihilist" Quotes from Famous Books

... it is not difficult to guess that you are going on some dangerous errand." Smiling: "I will not do you the injustice to believe you a nihilist." ...

— Serge Panine • Georges Ohnet

... Russia preeminence as a political menace. Russia, in all things—music, art, literature—the tragic note. Stefani Gregor and Johnny Two-Hawks had roused the enmity of some political society with this result. Nihilist or Bolshevist or socialist, there was little choice; and Cutty sensibly did not want her drawn ...

— The Drums Of Jeopardy • Harold MacGrath

... did not respond to the invitation. His dazed mind was working now. Through bruised lids he regarded the soot-masked intruder—a nihilist, no doubt! His excellency had had one or two experiences with members of secret societies in the past. There was a nest of them in New Jersey. Though how one of them could have managed to get aboard the Nevski, he had no time just then to figure out. The ...

— A Man and His Money • Frederic Stewart Isham

... aggressive discontent. It is somewhere between the two extremes that practical commonsense should be looked for. In the meantime, if it is a question of sharing a supper of spring quails on Mount Eryx, a peaceful, gentle philosopher is probably a more agreeable companion than a socialistic nihilist. ...

— Diversions in Sicily • H. Festing Jones

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