First would be the literary side, then the spiritual and philosophical. The political side is required principally because of the necessity of the current Russian position.

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.

When one is already on the edge of the grave, why not resist?

Of course, my views developed in the course of time. But I have always believed in what I did and never acted against my conscience.

Nothing is more boring than a man with a career.

I think the gap between the rich and the poor is a dangerous phenomenon in Russia and it needs the attention of the state. The only reasonable way to correct the situation today is not to go after big businesses, but to give breathing room to medium and small businesses. That means protecting citizens and small entrepreneurs from arbitrary rule and from corruption. It means investing the revenues from the national natural resources into the national infrastructure, education and health care. And we must learn to do so without shameful theft and embezzlement.

If there were no executioners, there would be no executions.