The one who pulls is the one they urge on.

The revolution is an amalgam of former Party functionaries, quasi- democrats, KGB officers, and black-market wheeler-dealers, who are standing in power now and have represented a dirty hybrid unseen in world history

The Universe has as many different centers as there are living beings in it.

Gorbachev's administration was amazingly politically naïve, inexperienced and irresponsible towards the country. It was not governance but a thoughtless renunciation of power. The admiration of the West in return only strengthened his conviction that his approach was right. But let us be clear that it was Mikhail Gorbachev, and not Boris Yeltsin, as is now widely being claimed, who first gave freedom of speech and movement to the citizens of Russia.

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?

To destroy a people, you must first sever their roots.

If we live in a state of constant fear, can we remain human?