Communism will never be halted by negotiations or through the machinations of detente. It can only be halted by force from without or by disintegration from within.

The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. "One word of truth outweighs the world.

It's an universal law-- intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound education breeds humility.

You can resolve to live your life with integrity. Let your credo be this: Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me.

Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.

Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.

The generation now coming out of Western schools is unable to distinguish good from bad. Even those words are unacceptable. This results in impaired thinking ability.

To destroy a people, you must first sever their roots.

That which is called humanism, but what would be more correctly called irreligious anthropocentrism, cannot yield answers to the most essential questions of our life

Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.

If we look far into the future, one can see a time in the 21st century when both Europe and the USA will be in dire need of Russia as an ally.

The home of every soul is not among another's glory, but should be within another's soul.

All I needed to know, all true knowledge, the only really essential knowledge, was to be found in the books I read and the music I listened to

a social conscience is not incompatible with profit.

I was known as the chief grave robber of my state.

Until you know that life is interesting - and find it so - you haven't found your soul.

I do get cynical, but what can you do? It doesn't make any difference.

Alone time is when I distance myself from the voices of the world so I can hear my own.

Ford O'Connell, the guy in the sound bite we just played, he's the guy who said that nominating a conservative presidential candidate would just postpone the GOP nightmare.

The world tilted slightly sideways. 'I think I need to sit down.' The floor seemed like the best option. It was close and he'd already proved that he could hit it. His legs folded.

Most all methods of capitol punishment are designed to inflict the maximum of humiliation - not attempts to prevent suicide.