Freedom or prison--what's the difference? A man must develop unwavering will power subject only to his reason.

For a country to have a great writer is to have another government.

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.

If you wanted to put the world to rights, who should you begin with: yourself or others?

The task must be to banish from mankind's thought the idea that anybody has the right to use force against righteousness, against justice, against mutual agreements.

If... if... We didn't love freedom enough. And even more - we had no awareness of the real situation. We spent ourselves in one unrestrained outburst in 1917, and then we hurried to submit. We submitted with pleasure! ........... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.

Ideology - that is what gives evildoing its long-sought justification and gives the evildoer the neccessary steadfastness and determination... Thanks to ideology, the twentieth century was fated to experience evildoing on a scale calculated in the millions.