When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.

The thoughts of a prisoner - they're not free either. They keep returning to the same things.

Human nature, if it changes at all, changes not much faster than the geological face of the earth.

Even if we are spared destruction by war, our lives will have to change if we want to save life from self-destruction.

You're sincere, but in order not to upset your views you avoid talking with people who think differently. You pick your thoughts from conversations with people like yourself, from books written by people like yourself. In physics they call it resonance. You start out with modest opinions, but they match and build each other up to a scale.

Human nature is full of riddles; . . . one of those riddles is: how is it that people who have been crushed by the sheer weight of slavery and cast to the bottom of the pit can nevertheless find strength in themselves to rise up and free themselves first in spirit and then in body while those who soar unhampered over the peaks of freedom suddenly lose the taste of freedom, lose the will to defend it, and, hopelessly confused and lost, almost begin to crave slavery?'