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

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.

It is unthinkable in the twentieth century to fail to distinguish between what constitutes an abominable atrocity that must be prosecuted and what constitutes that "past" which "ought not to be stirred up.

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

We are all human, and our senses are quicker to prompt us than our reason. Every man gives off a scent, and that scent tells you how to act before your head does.

Today when we say the West we are already referring to the West and to Russia. We could use the word 'modernity' if we exclude Africa, and the Islamic world, and partially China.

Scientific research? Only when not at the cost of ethics-and first of all, those of the researchers themselves.