If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?

It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes. It may even lie on the surface; but we make mistakes because the easiest and most co…

In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.

It is almost always impossible to evaluate at the time events which you have already experienced, and to understand their meaning with the guidance of their ef…

One shouldn't be afraid of the humans. Well, I am not afraid of the humans, but of what is inhuman in them.

In men whom men condemn as ill I find so much of goodness still. In men whom men pronounce divine I find so much of sin and blot I do not dare to draw a line B…

I am not addressing my own people, nor my fellow citizens of the holy Romans, but those who are now become citizens of demons by reason of their evil works. Th…