We have to condemn the very idea that some people have the right to repress others.

If I were called upon to identify briefly the principal trait of the entire 20th century... I would be unable to find anything more precise and pithy than to repeat once again: Men have forgotten God.

All classifications in this world lack sharp boundaries, and all transitions are gradual.

You get no thanks from your belly-it always forgets what you've just done for it and comes begging again the next day.

A poet cannot be a Party member ... without paying the price.

A whole week, a single campaign, a month, a week, even a day was far more than enough to cut a company or platoon to ribbons or cripple a man for life: it needed only a quarter of an hour.

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