Some are bound to die young. By dying young a person stays young in people’s memory. If he burns brightly before he dies, his brightness shines for all time.
Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it prolongs one’s well-being.
A great writer is, so to speak, a secret government in his country.
You took my freedom away a long time ago and you can’t give it back because you haven’t got it yourself.
If decade after decade the truth cannot be told, each person’s mind begins to roam irretrievably. One’s fellow countrymen become harder to understand than Martians.
The less you speak, the more you will hear.
Macbeth’s self-justifications were feeble – and his conscience devoured him. Yes, even Iago was a little lamb too. The imagination and the spiritual strength of Shakespeare’s evildoers stopped short at a dozen corpses. Because they had no ideology.
Your friend will argue with you.
Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice.
But there are still people whose moral superiority defeats your own.
Even the most rational approach to ethics is defenseless if there isn’t the will to do what is right.
To taste the sea all one needs is one gulp.
One word of truth outweighs the whole world.
Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err because this is more comfortable.
No one can bar the road to truth, and to advance its cause I am prepared to accept even death.
Let your memory be your travel bag.
When one is already on the edge of the grave, why not resist?
There is eternal simplicity to a solution once it has been discovered!
To destroy a people, you must first sever their roots.