Communist propaganda would sometimes include statements such as "we include almost all the commandments of the Gospel in our ideology". The difference is that the Gospel asks all this to be achieved through love, through self-limitation, but socialism only uses coercion. This is one point.

Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.

Which of us can control his feelings?

There is a law of time, a law of oblivion: glory to the dead; life to the living.

I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever.

People who are at ease with their consciences always look happy.

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.