History is too slow for our life, for our hearts.

Such as it is, the press has become the greatest power within the Western World, more powerful than the legislature, the executive and judiciary. One would like to ask; by whom has it been elected and to whom is it responsible?

Scientific research? Only when not at the cost of ethics-and first of all, those of the researchers themselves.

Woe to that nation whose literature is disturbed by the intervention of power. Because that is not just a violation against "freedom of print," it is the closing down of the heart of the nation, a slashing to pieces of its memory.

There is no point asserting and reasserting what the heart cannot believe.

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

Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either - but right through every human heart...