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.

Can a man who's warm understand one who's freezing?

For a country to have a great writer ... is like having another government. That's why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.

Here, lads, we live by the law of the taiga. But even here people manage to live. D'you know who are the ones the camps finish off? Those who lick other men's …

When you hear me singing you get the rifle down and the flashlight, aiming for my brain, but you always miss and when you set out the poison I piss on it to wa…

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than und…

An oppressed people are authorized, whenever they can, to rise and break their fetters.