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But there are still people whose moral superiority defeats your own.
Why should I trust you? We haven't drunk from the same bowl of soup.
Good or evil-you cannot build your life apart from this distinction.
People can live through hardship, but from hard feelings they perish.
Human beings are better and lazier than their rules and instructions.
Only a magician can fix a head on a body, but any fool can lop it off.
There is eternal simplicity to a solution once it has been discovered!
Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.
Not death itself, but only the moral preparation for it, holds terrors.
... that maxim of Descartes: "Question everything!" Question everything!
Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
Socialism of any type leads to a total destruction of the human spirit...
There can be no acceptable future without an honest analysis of the past.
The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
It is a brave man who is the first to sit down during a standing ovation.
There is no point asserting and reasserting what the heart cannot believe.
A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.
The essence of life will never be captured by even the greatest of formulas.
The Universe has as many different centers as there are living beings in it.
I leaf through the ancient philosophers and find my newest discoveries there.
After all, man is a complicated being, why should he be explainable by logic?
We are so attached to the earth, and yet we are incapable of holding onto it.
It is in the nature of the human being to seek a justification for his actions.
It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good.
... We brush aside all scales not our own, as if they were follies or delusions.
The one good thing about repeating your mistakes is that you know when to cringe
Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
The solemn pledge to abstain from telling the truth was called socialist realism.
Thus, literature, together with language, preserves and protects a nation's soul.
If one is a professional soldier, it is part of one's job to die sooner or later.
There is a law of time, a law of oblivion: glory to the dead; life to the living.
It is within the power of writers and artists to do much more: to defeat the lie!
... a man can safely sacrifice a great deal as long as he clings to the essential.
A fish does not campaign against fisheries-it only tries to slip through the mesh.
Art thaws even the frozen, darkened soul, opening it to lofty spiritual experience.
We have to condemn the very idea that some people have the right to repress others.
When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
The central government possesses no plan of finding the way out of this blind alley.
Just as King Midas turned everything to gold, Stalin turned everything to mediocrity.
... the inexorable lesson of centuries: suffering must be borne; there is no way out.
In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.
You should rejoice that you're in prison. Here you have time to think about your soul.
Why can't you understand? The stars fall down now and then. The gaps have to be filled.
Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.
The secret is that when you've been pitched head first into hell you just write about it
If you wanted to put the world to rights, who should you begin with: yourself or others?
When you're young, you haven't the experience, when you're old you haven't the strength.
... mutual lack of understanding carries the threat of imminent and violent destruction.