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.

We didn't love freedom enough.

The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?

We always pay dearly for chasing after what is cheap.

Let your memory be your travel bag.

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.

Only the first swath cut by the scythe is difficult.