The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man. Read Summary
A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny. Read Summary
For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion. Read Summary
The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all. Read Summary
I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either. Read Summary
The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature. Read Summary
Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation. Read Summary
Religion always remains higher than everyday life. In order to make the elevation towards religion easier for people, religion must be able to alter its forms in relation to the consciousness of modern man. Read Summary
Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice. Read Summary
It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed. Read Summary
Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it prolongs one's well-being. Read Summary
Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory. Read Summary
There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere. Read Summary
Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing. Read Summary
The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed by its rubble. Read Summary
You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again. Read Summary
It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones. Read Summary
How can you expect a man who's warm to understand one who's cold? Read Summary
A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him. Read Summary
We have arrived at an intellectual chaos. Read Summary