The most intense patriotism always flourishes in the rear.

If someone asked you, why not help him out?

One should not ascribe the evil deeds of individual leaders or political regimes to an innate fault of the Russian people and their country.

The same old caveman feeling-greed, envy, violence, and mutual hate, which along the way assumed respectable pseudonyms like class struggle, racial struggle, mass struggle, labor-union struggle-are tearing our world to pieces.

A storm breaks trees. It only bends grass.

A drop in the ocean has no fear of a hurricane.

At what point, then, should one resist? When one's belt is taken away? When one is ordered to face into a corner? When one crosses the threshold of one's home? An arrest consists of a series of incidental irrelevancies, of a multitude of things that do not matter, and there seems no point in arguing about one of them individually...and yet all these incidental irrelevancies taken together implacably constitute the arrest.