The central government possesses no plan of finding the way out of this blind alley.

Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.

What would things been like [in Russia] if during periods of mass arrests people had not simply sat there, paling with terror at every bang on the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but understood they had nothing to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people?

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 terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.

It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.

Everyone is guilty of something or has something to conceal. All one has to do is look hard enough to find what it is.

Pride grows in the human heart like lard on a pig.