One can build the Empire State Building, discipline the Prussian army, make a state hierarchy mightier than God, yet fail to overcome the unaccountable superiority of certain human beings.

As for Europe, its claims towards Russia are fairly transparently based on fears about energy, unjustified fears at that.

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.

If one is a professional soldier, it is part of one's job to die sooner or later.

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.

What a force is laughter.

Even the most rational approach to ethics is defenseless if there isn't the will to do what is right.