My God, but what do I care about the laws of nature and arithmatic if for some reason these laws and two times two is four are not to my liking?

It is easier for a Russian to become an atheist than for anyone else in the world.

A society should be judged not by how it treats its outstanding citizens but by how it treats its criminals.

When . . . in the course of all these thousands of years has man ever acted in accordance with his own interests?

Destroy my desires, eradicate my ideals, show me something better, and I will follow you.

Do you think it is a vain hope that one day man will find joy in noble deeds of light and mercy, rather than in the coarse pleasures he indulges in today -- gluttony, fornication, ostentation, boasting, and envious vying with his neighbor? I am certain this is not a vain hope and that the day will come soon.

If someone proved to me that Christ is outside the truth, and that in reality the truth were outside of Christ, then I should prefer to remain with Christ rather than with the truth.