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

You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again.

Sometimes I feel quite distinctly that what is inside me is not all of me. There is something else, sublime, quite indestructible, some tiny fragment of the Universal spirit.Don't you feel that?

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?

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

I was always optimistic. And I held to and was guided by my views.

As the old proverb says: "Well-fed horses don't rampage.