A drop in the ocean has no fear of a hurricane.
People who are at ease with their consciences always look happy.
I think the gap between rich and poor is an extremely dangerous phenomenon and needs the immediate attention of the state.
How can you expect a man who’s warm to understand one who’s cold?
When you’re cold, don’t expect sympathy from someone who’s warm.
Every human act can be disguised with a coating of gilt.
Economic growth is not only unncessary, but ruinous.
Nowadays we don’t think much of a man’s love for an animal; we laugh at people who are attached to cats. But if we stop loving animals, aren’t we bound to stop loving humans too?
Human nature, if it changes at all, changes not much faster than the geological face of the earth.
The price of cowardice will only be evil. We shall reap courage and victory only when we dare to make sacrifices.
Voting for impersonal parties and their programmes is a false substitute for the only true way to elect people’s representatives: voting by an actual person for an actual candidate.
Freedom or prison – what’s the difference? A man must develop unwavering will power subject only to his reason.
Our envy of others devours us most of all.
Evil people always support each other; that is their chief strength.
We should clearly understand that only the voluntary and conscientious acceptance by a people of its guilt can ensure the healing of a nation. Unremitting reproaches from outside are counterproductive.
It was wrong to be too pragmatic, to judge people solely by results; it was more humane to judge by intentions.
During my time in the camps, I had got to know the enemies of the human race quite well: they respect the big fist and nothing else; the harder you slug them, the safer you will be.
One should not ascribe the evil deeds of individual leaders or political regimes to an innate fault of the Russian people and their country.
When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
We are all human, and our senses are quicker to prompt us than our reason. Every man gives off a scent, and that scent tells you how to act before your head does.