... once you get up steam, you are carried helplessly along.

Submissiveness to fate, the total abdication of your own will in the shaping of your life, the recognition that it was impossible to guess the best and the worst ahead of time but that it was easy to take a step you would reproach yourself for-all this freed the prisoner from any bondage, made him calmer, and even ennobled him.

Economic growth is not only unncessary, but ruinous.

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.

Only a magician can fix a head on a body, but any fool can lop it off.

Good or evil-you cannot build your life apart from this distinction.

Let all of us who shared the prison soup meet again in better times!