If the crowd disperses, goes home, does not reassemble, we say the revolution is over.

Literature seemed to be everything then. People looked to it for the strength to live, for guidance, for revelation.

There is a lack of critical assessment of the past. But you have to understand that the current ruling elite is actually the old ruling elite. So they are incapable of a self-critical approach to the past.

Our salvation is in striving to achieve what we know we'll never achieve.

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.

He killed his enemies because he was afraid they would kill him. Amin ordered entire tribes to be put to death, because he feared they would rebel.

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