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

Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either - but right through every human heart...

The Communists have for decades loudly proclaimed their goal of destroying the bourgeois world, while the West merely smiled at what seemed to be an extravagant joke.

If... if... We didn't love freedom enough. And even more - we had no awareness of the real situation. We spent ourselves in one unrestrained outburst in 1917, and then we hurried to submit. We submitted with pleasure! ........... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.

The Universe has as many different centers as there are living beings in it.

The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.

A man used to riding in a car cannot understand a pedestrian.