Whenever the tissue of life is woven of legalistic relationships, this creates an atmosphere of spiritual mediocrity that paralyzes a person's noblest impulses.

On our crowded planet there are no longer any internal affairs!

... mutual lack of understanding carries the threat of imminent and violent destruction.

The revolution is an amalgam of former Party functionaries, quasi- democrats, KGB officers, and black-market wheeler-dealers, who are standing in power now and have represented a dirty hybrid unseen in world history

To preserve his life, should a man pay everything that gives it color, scent and excitement?

Scientific research? Only when not at the cost of ethics-and first of all, those of the researchers themselves.

Just as King Midas turned everything to gold, Stalin turned everything to mediocrity.