A whole week, a single campaign, a month, a week, even a day was far more than enough to cut a company or platoon to ribbons or cripple a man for life: it needed only a quarter of an hour.

The less you speak, the more you will hear.

It is within the power of writers and artists to do much more: to defeat the lie!

What would things been like [in Russia] if during periods of mass arrests people had not simply sat there, paling with terror at every bang on the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but understood they had nothing to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people?

Economic growth is not only unncessary, but ruinous.

Art thaws even the frozen, darkened soul, opening it to lofty spiritual experience.

In all probability an outburst of desperation in the midst of general submissiveness will always help.