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.

And the over-all fact that you are a frail vessel full of errors.

An engineer cannot participate in irrationality.

If state, party and social policy will not be based on morality, then mankind has no future to speak of.

Let all of us who shared the prison soup meet again in better times!

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

When the whole discussion of "developing a national idea" hastily began in post-Soviet Russia, I tried to pour cold water on it with the objection that, after all the devastating losses we had experienced, it would be quite sufficient to have just one task: the preservation of a dying people.