In order to feel contempt, you generally need to cherish some kind of feelings.

In order to feel contempt, you generally need to cherish some kind of feelings.

When man meets an obstacle he can't destroy, he destroys himself.

The extent of one man's guilt may be defined by how much of it is experienced by the party he injured.

The so-called new Russian man is characterized mainly by his complete exhaustion. You may find yourself wondering if he has the strength to enjoy his new-found freedom. He is like a long-distance runner who, on reaching the finishing line, is incapable even of raising his hands in a gesture of victory.

First you destroy those who create values. Then you destroy those who know what the values are, and who also know that those destroyed before were in fact the creators of values. But real barbarism begins when no one can any longer judge or know that what he does is barbaric.

In the First World War, there was the sudden passion of nationalism, and the killing took place because of these emotions. But the Soviet case is different, because you had systematic murder, like the Holocaust.