If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.

Im waiting, for what, my kind of people, what kind is that, i can tell my kind of people by their faces, by something in their faces.

We have come to see how great is the unexplored.

You must be the kind of man who can get things done. But to get things done, you must love the doing, not the secondary consequences.

Andrei, did you like the opera?" "Not particularly." "Andrei, do you see what you're missing?" "I don't think I do, Kira. It's all rather silly. And useless." "Can't you enjoy things that are useless, merely because they are beautiful?" "No. But I enjoyed it." "The music?" "No. The way you listened to it.

My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.

Errors of knowledge are not breaches of morality; no proper moral code can demand infallibility or omniscience.