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…

- Vasily Grossman

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…

- Vasily Grossman

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…

- Vasily Grossman

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…

- Vasily Grossman

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…

- Vasily Grossman

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

- Vasily Grossman

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…

- Vasily Grossman

In the cruel and terrible time in which our generation has been condemned to live on this earth, we must never make peace with evil. We must never be…

- Vasily Grossman

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

- Vasily Grossman