There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.

You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again.

... We brush aside all scales not our own, as if they were follies or delusions.

We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err because this is more comfortable.

Violence does not and cannot flourish by itself; it is inevitably intertwined with lying.

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

A meek fellow ... is a real godsend in any gang.