Nothing is more powerful than individuals acting out of their own conscience.

It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs.

Education is the ability to perceive the hidden connections between phenomena.

The previous regime ... reduced man to a means of production and nature to a tool of production. Thus it attacked both their very essence and their mutual relationship. It reduced gifted and autonomous people to nuts and bolts in some monstrously huge, noisy, and stinking machine.

People who live in the post-totalitarian system know only too well that the question of whether one or several political parties are in power, and how these parties define and label themselves, is of far less importance than the question of whether or not it is possible to live like a human being.

Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

English is the 'language of liberty' for nations emerging from years of cultural oppression.