An engineer cannot participate in irrationality...
To his and everybody else’s way of thinking, you should build a house with your own hands before you start talking about being an engineer.
In every life there is one particular event that is decisive for the entire person-for his fate, his convictions, his passions.
If there were no executioners, there would be no executions.
We never know beforehand how new posts or new work will change us.
My friends! Let us try to be helpful, if we are worth anything.
I insist on believing that beauty elevates human beings.
When you’re young, you haven’t the experience, when you’re old you haven’t the strength.
The foundation stones of a great building are destined to groan and be pressed upon; it is not for them to crown the edifice.
Human nature is full of riddles and contradictions; its very complexity engenders art-and by art I mean the search for something more than simple linear formulations, flat solutions, oversimplified explanations.
Nowhere on the planet, nowhere in history, was there a regime more vicious, more bloodthirsty, and at the same time more cunning than the Bolshevik, the self-styled Soviet regime.
What a force is laughter.
Justness exists, even if few people exist who feel it.
To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he’s doing is good, or else that it’s a well-considered act in conformity with natural law. Fortunately, it is in the nature of the human being to seek a justification for his actions.
To reject this inhuman Communist ideology is simply to be a human being. Such a rejection is more than a political act. It is a protest of our souls against those who would have us forget the concepts of good and evil.
Who will dare say he has defined art?
We will die, but art will remain.
Communism will never be halted by negotiations or through the machinations of detente. It can only be halted by force from without or by disintegration from within.
Too much art was no art at all. Like candy instead of bread!
People can live through hardship, but from hard feelings they perish.