The price of cowardice will only be evil. We shall reap courage and victory only when we dare to make sacrifices.

The Universe has as many different centers as there are living beings in it.

... scientists have made no clear effort to become an important, independently active force of mankind. Whole congresses at a time, they back away from the suffering of others; it is more comfortable to stay within the bounds of science.

I dare hope that all the peoples who have lived through communism will understand that communism is to blame for the bitter pages of their history.

Literature that is not the breath of contemporary society, that dares not transmit the pains and fears of that society . . . loses the confidence of its own people, and its published works are used as wastepaper instead of being read.

Of course, my views developed in the course of time. But I have always believed in what I did and never acted against my conscience.

He had drawn many a thousand of these rations in prisons and camps, and though he'd never had an opportunity to weight them on scales, and although, being a man of timid nature, he knew no way of standing up for his rights, he, like every other prisoner, had discovered long ago that honest weight was never to be found in the bread-cutting. There was short weight in every ration. The only point was how short. So every day you took a look to soothe your soul - today, maybe, they haven't snitched any.