Those two, in paradise, were given a choice: happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative.

- Yevgeny Zamyatin

I prefer being wrong in my own way to being right in someone else's.

- Yevgeny Zamyatin

Knowledge! What does that mean? Your knowledge is nothing but cowardice. No, really, that's all it is. You just want to put a little wall around infi…

- Yevgeny Zamyatin

It is an error to divide people into the living and the dead: there are people who are dead-alive, and people who are alive-alive. The dead-alive als…

- Yevgeny Zamyatin

There is no final one; revolutions are infinite.

- Yevgeny Zamyatin

You're in bad shape. It looks like you're developing a soul.

- Yevgeny Zamyatin

Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought.

- Yevgeny Zamyatin

If we have no heretics we must invent them, for heresy is essential to health and growth.

- Yevgeny Zamyatin

There are books of the same chemical composition as dynamite. The only difference is that a piece of dynamite explodes once, whereas a book explodes …

- Yevgeny Zamyatin