We didn't love freedom enough.

A storm breaks trees. It only bends grass.

I dare hope that all the peoples who have lived through communism will understand that communism is to blame for the bitter pages of their history.

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

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

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?

Freedom! To fill people's mailboxes, eyes, ears and brains with commercial rubbish against their will, television programs that are impossible to watch with a sense of coherence. Freedom! To force information on people, taking no account of their right not to accept it or their right of peace of mind. Freedom! To spit in the eyes and souls of passersby with advertisements.