It was wrong to be too pragmatic, to judge people solely by results; it was more humane to judge by intentions.

To stand up for truth is nothing. For truth, you must sit in jail.

... the inexorable lesson of centuries: suffering must be borne; there is no way out.

It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.

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

In our country they do not permit any information to be X-rayed through and through, nor any discussion to encompass all the facets of a subject. All this is invariably suppressed at the very beginning, so no ray of light should fall on the naked body of truth. And then all this is piled up in one formless heap covering many years, where it languishes for whole decades, until all interest and all means of sorting out the rusty blocks from all this trash are lost.

It takes a fool to rush off to war!