What a force is laughter.

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.

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

The solemn pledge to abstain from telling the truth was called socialist realism.

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.

... people don't know what they are striving for. They waste themselves in senseless thrashing around for the sake of a handful of goods and die without realizing their spiritual wealth.

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