We always pay dearly for chasing after what is cheap.

Boris Yeltsin's period was characterized by a no less irresponsible attitude to people's lives, but in other ways. In his haste to have private rather than state ownership as quickly as possible, Yeltsin started a mass, multi-billion-dollar fire sale of the national patrimony. Wanting to gain the support of regional leaders, Yeltsin called directly for separatism and passed laws that encouraged and empowered the collapse of the Russian state. This deprived Russia of its historical role for which it had worked so hard, and lowered its standing in the international community.

The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.

Truth seldom is pleasant; it is almost invariably bitter.

Nowhere on the planet, nowhere in history, was there a regime more vicious, more bloodthirsty, and at the same time more cunning than the Bolshevik, the self-styled Soviet regime.

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

Prayers are like those appeals of ours. Either they don't get through or they're returned with 'rejected' scrawled across 'em.