In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousandfold in the future. When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers . . . we are ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations.

It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.

It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.

I would rather have the United States as the world's policeman than the Soviet Union as the world's jailer.

One should not ascribe the evil deeds of individual leaders or political regimes to an innate fault of the Russian people and their country.

Truth seldom is pleasant; it is almost invariably bitter.

Nothing worthy can be built on a neglect of higher meanings and on a relativistic view of concepts and culture as a whole. Indeed, something greater than a phenomenon confined to art can be discerned shimmering here beneath the surface - shimmering not with light but with an ominous crimson glow.