Let us drive away those cruel, greedy oppressors, governments, and the new ones, having just laid aside grenades and rifles, will be just and understanding. Far from it.

If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?

Friends! Let us try to help if we are worth anything at all!

It is unthinkable in the twentieth century to fail to distinguish between what constitutes an abominable atrocity that must be prosecuted and what constitutes that "past" which "ought not to be stirred up.

To his and everybody else's way of thinking, you should build a house with your own hands before you start talking about being an engineer.

The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.

I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever.