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

A whole week, a single campaign, a month, a week, even a day was far more than enough to cut a company or platoon to ribbons or cripple a man for life: it needed only a quarter of an hour.

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

Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which are so dear to you - you do not even suspect that the day has already dawned outside.

I think the gap between rich and poor is an extremely dangerous phenomenon and needs the immediate attention of the state.

The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?

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