If we could all take a sober look at our history, then we would no longer see this nostalgic attitude to the Soviet past that predominates among the less affected part of our society.

The intellectual is not defined by professional group and type of occupation. Nor are good upbringing and a good family enough in themselves to produce an intellectual. An intellectual is a person whose interest in and preoccupation with the spiritual side of life are insistent and constant and not forced by external circumstances, even flying in the face of them. An intellectual is a person whose thought is nonimitative.

One word of truth outweighs the whole world.

Mistakes are a great educator when one is honest enough to admit them and willing to learn from them

A fish does not campaign against fisheries-it only tries to slip through the mesh.

Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.

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