Why do people have memories? It would be easier to die - anything to stop remembering..

Human groupings have one main purpose: to assert everyone’s right to be different, to be special, to think, feel and live in his or her own way. Peop….

Thousands of people are being buried and no one attends the funerals,' said one of the soldiers. 'In peacetime it's the other way round: one coffin a….

Man and fascism cannot co-exist. If fascism conquers, man will cease to exist and there will remain only man-like creatures that have undergone an in….

Ivan tells Anna: "I used to imagine that being embraced by a woman . . . as something so wonderful that it would make me forget everthing . . . [But]….

The longer a nation's history, the more wars, invasions, wanderings, and periods of captivity it has seen-the greater the diversity of its faces..

Human history is not the battle of good struggling to overcome evil. It is a battle fought by a great evil struggling to crush a small kernel of huma….

The divine impeccability of the immortal [Soviet] State turned out not only to have suppressed individual human beings but also to have defended them….

There is a deep and undeniable sadness in all this: whenever we see the dawn of an eternal good that will never be overcome by evil – an evil that is….

Good men and bad men alike are capable of weakness. The difference is simply that a bad man will be proud all his life of one good deed - while an ho….

There was something terrible, but also something sad and melancholy in this long cry uttered by the Russian infantry as they staged an attack. As it ….

The history of humanity is the history of human freedom...Freedom is not, as Engels thought, "the recognition of necessity." Freedom is the opposite ….

Chekhov said: let's put God - and all these grand progressive ideas - to one side. Let's begin with man; let's be kind and attentive to the individua….

Humanity will live as long as there are humans..

And in this silence of the dumb and these speeches of the blind, in this medly of people bound together by the same grief, terror and hope, in this h….

The sea was not freedom; it was a likeness of freedom, a symbol of freedom...How splendid freedom must be if a mere likeness of it, a mere reminder o….

I don't believe in your "Good". I believe in human kindness..

There's nothing more difficult than saying goodbye to a house where you've suffered..

He was endowed with the extraordinary powers of endurance characteristic of madmen and simpletons..

I have written only what I have thought through, felt through and suffered through..

There are people whose souls have just withered, people who are willing to go along with anything evil - anything so as not to be suspected of disagr….