Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflec...ted in the press.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
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 terri...ble one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
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.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which are so dear to you--you do not... even suspect that the day has already dawned outside.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
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.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Here, lads, we live by the law of the taiga. But even here people manage to live. D'you know who are the ones the camps finish off...? Those who lick other men's left-overs, those who set store by the doctors, and those who peach on their mates.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes. It may even lie on the surface; but we make mistakes be...cause the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions--especially selfish ones.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am of course confident that I will fulfil my tasks as a writer in all circumstances--from my grave even more successfully and mo...re irrefutably than in my lifetime. No one can bar the road to truth, and to advance its cause I am prepared to accept even death. But may it be that repeated lessons will finally teach us not to stop the writer's pen during his lifetime? At no time has this ennobled our history.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »