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.

I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.

Just as King Midas turned everything to gold, Stalin turned everything to mediocrity.

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

Voting for impersonal parties and their programmes is a false substitute for the only true way to elect people's representatives: voting by an actual person for an actual candidate.

In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.

Yes, you live with your feet in the mud and there's no time to be thinking about how you got in or how you're going to get out.