If we don't know our own history, then we simply will have to endure all of the same mistakes, all of the same sacrifices, all of the same absurdities over again - times ten.

The one who doesn't pull his weight is not asked to pull, while the one who does, pulls for two.

I think the gap between rich and poor is an extremely dangerous phenomenon and needs the immediate attention of the state.

An engineer cannot participate in irrationality.

Violence, less and less embarrassed by the limits imposed by centuries of lawfulness, is brazenly and victoriously striding across the whole world, unconcerned that its infertility has been demonstrated and proved many times in history. What is more, it is not simply crude power that triumphs abroad, but its exultant justification. The world is being inundated by the brazen conviction that power can do anything, justice nothing.

History is too slow for our life, for our hearts.

... but it is human to be outraged by injustice, even to the point of courting destruction!