...skepticism can never provide firm ground under a man's feet. And perhaps, after all, we need firm ground.

If a person can build a fence around himself, he is bound to do it.

We have to condemn publicly the very idea that some people have the right to repress others... When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers ... we are ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations.

As for Europe, its claims towards Russia are fairly transparently based on fears about energy, unjustified fears at that.

If we don't know our own history, then we simply will have to endure all of the same mistakes, all of the same sacrifices, all of the same absurdities over again - times ten.

The one who doesn't pull his weight is not asked to pull, while the one who does, pulls for two.

I think the gap between rich and poor is an extremely dangerous phenomenon and needs the immediate attention of the state.