A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.

Atheism: It seeks to replace in itself the moral power of religion, in order to appease the spiritual thirst of parched humanity and save it; not by Christ, but by force.

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

What is hell?...The suffering that comes from the consciousness that one is no longer able to love.

But man is so addicted to systems and to abstract conclusions that he is prepared deliberately to distort the truth, to close his eyes and ears, but justify his logic at all cost.

What terrible tragedies realism inflicts on people.

Come, try, give any one of us, for instance, a little more independence, untie our hands, widen the spheres of our activity, relax the control and we...yes, I assure you...we should be begging to be under control again at once.