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All classifications in this world lack sharp boundaries, and all transitions are gradual.
Violence does not and cannot flourish by itself; it is inevitably intertwined with lying.
My wish for you... is that your skeptic-eclectic brain be flooded with the light of truth.
... but it is human to be outraged by injustice, even to the point of courting destruction!
To preserve his life, should a man pay everything that gives it color, scent and excitement?
Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.
The thoughts of a prisoner - they're not free either. They keep returning to the same things.
Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul.
No one can bar the road to truth, and to advance its cause I am prepared to accept even death.
Surely people should eventually cease to be surprised at anything? And yet they continue to be.
A great disaster had befallen Russia: Men have forgotten God; that's why all this has happened.
The one who doesn't pull his weight is not asked to pull, while the one who does, pulls for two.
Every man always has handy a dozen glib little reasons why he is right not to sacrifice himself.
The belly is an ungrateful wretch, it never remembers past favors, it always wants more tomorrow.
For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion.
The fewer limitations the artist imposes on his work, the less chance he has for artistic success.
... some kind of clean, pure feeling does live within us, existing apart from all our convictions.
Human nature, if it changes at all, changes not much faster than the geological face of the earth.
The name of 'reform' simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage.
Mistakes are a great educator when one is honest enough to admit them and willing to learn from them
Even the most rational approach to ethics is defenseless if there isn't the will to do what is right.
In all probability an outburst of desperation in the midst of general submissiveness will always help.
The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.
You took my freedom away a long time ago and you can't give it back because you haven't got it yourself.
Someone that you have deprived of everything is no longer in your power. He is once again entirely free.
If state, party and social policy will not be based on morality, then mankind has no future to speak of.
Any man who has once acclaimed violence as his method must inexorably choose falsehood as his principle.
It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.
A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today.
For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion.
I would rather have the United States as the world's policeman than the Soviet Union as the world's jailer.
...skepticism can never provide firm ground under a man's feet. And perhaps, after all, we need firm ground.
Even the most broad-minded of us can embrace only that part of truth into which our own snout has blundered.
Should one point out that from ancient times decline in courage has been considered the beginning of the end?
Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.
Freedom or prison--what's the difference? A man must develop unwavering will power subject only to his reason.
Scientific research? Only when not at the cost of ethics-and first of all, those of the researchers themselves.
I have grown used to the fact that public repentance is the most unacceptable option for the modern politician.
It was wrong to be too pragmatic, to judge people solely by results; it was more humane to judge by intentions.
When we feel that we are not sufficiently respected, we should ask ourselves whether we are living as we should.
The price of cowardice will only be evil. We shall reap courage and victory only when we dare to make sacrifices.
The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. "One word of truth outweighs the world.
We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err because this is more comfortable.
Generosity is a two-edged virtue for an artist - it nourishes his imagination but has a fatal effect on his routine.
I am deeply convinced that God is present both in the lives of every person and also in the lives of entire nations.
How quickly a zek (a prisoner) gets cheeky-or, putting it in literary language, how quickly a man's requirements grow.
Even if we are spared destruction by war, our lives will have to change if we want to save life from self-destruction.
You get no thanks from your belly-it always forgets what you've just done for it and comes begging again the next day.
Everyone is guilty of something or has something to conceal. All one has to do is look hard enough to find what it is.
As for Europe, its claims towards Russia are fairly transparently based on fears about energy, unjustified fears at that.