The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

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.

Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.

It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.

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.

For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion.

Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which are so dear to you -- you do not even suspect that the day has already dawned outside.