De mennesker, som lever i harmoni med deres samvittighed, har altid et smukt ansigt.
De mennesker, som lever i harmoni med deres samvittighed, har altid et smukt ansigt.
Du har magt over mennesker, så længe du ikke tager alt fra dem. Når du har taget alt fra en mand, er han ikke længere i din magt - han er fri igen.
Pressen er blevet den største magt i de vestlige lande, mere magtfuld end den lovgivende, den
udøvende og den dømmende magt. Jeg kunne derfor lide at spørge: hvilken lov har valgt den, og over for hvem er den ansvarlig?
Even the most rational approach to ethics is defenseless if there isn't the will to do what is right.
For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.
Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.
I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever.
I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either. I was in a state of witless shock, as though flames had suddenly enwrapped and paralyzed me so that for a moment I had no mind, no memory.
If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.
Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory.
You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again.