It's quite enough to show a well-beaten dog the whip.

The most intense patriotism always flourishes in the rear.

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

I dedicate this to all those who did not live to tell it. And may they please forgive me for not having seen it all nor remembered it all, for not having divined all of it - from The Gulag Archipelago

The heart senses who is friend and who is no friend.

The essence of life will never be captured by even the greatest of formulas.

... but it is human to be outraged by injustice, even to the point of courting destruction!