When I was in the gulag I would sometimes even write on stone walls. I used to write on scraps of paper, then I memorised the contents and destroyed the scraps.

When you're young, you haven't the experience, when you're old you haven't the strength.

Ideology - that is what gives evildoing its long-sought justification and gives the evildoer the neccessary steadfastness and determination... Thanks to ideology, the twentieth century was fated to experience evildoing on a scale calculated in the millions.

Once the fight is on-strike quickly and often.

A great disaster had befallen Russia: Men have forgotten God; that's why all this has happened.

If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?

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.