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- The demands of internal growth are incomparably more important to us...than the need for any external expansion of our power.
- In the camp, this meant committing my verse-many thousands of lines-to memory. To help me with this I improvised decimal counting beads and, in transit…
- I am of course confident that I will fulfill my tasks as a writer in all circumstances - from my grave even more successfully and…
- If... if... We didn't love freedom enough. And even more - we had no awareness of the real situation. We spent ourselves in one unrestrained…
- It is within the power of writers and artists to do much more: to defeat the lie!
- Such as it is, the press has become the greatest power within the Western World, more powerful than the legislature, the executive and judiciary. One…
- The strength or weakness of a society depends more on the level of its spiritual life than on its level of industrialization. Neither a market…
- Nowhere on the planet, nowhere in history, was there a regime more vicious, more bloodthirsty, and at the same time more cunning than the Bolshevik,…
- To reject this inhuman Communist ideology is simply to be a human being. Such a rejection is more than a political act. It is a…
- Human nature is full of riddles and contradictions; its very complexity engenders art-and by art I mean the search for something more than simple linear…
- The task of the artist is to sense more keenly than others the harmony of the world, the beauty and the outrage of what man…
- Nothing is more boring than a man with a career.
- It was wrong to be too pragmatic, to judge people solely by results; it was more humane to judge by intentions.
- In military science there is a principle more important than "Forward": it is that the task should be proportionate to the means.
- ... scientists have made no clear effort to become an important, independently active force of mankind. Whole congresses at a time, they back away from…
- The simple act of an ordinary courageous man is not to take part, not to support lies! Let that come into the world and even…
- A whole week, a single campaign, a month, a week, even a day was far more than enough to cut a company or platoon to…
- 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…
- Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.
- 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
- Only those who decline to scramble up the career ladder are interesting as human beings. Nothing is more boring than a man with a career.
- The belly is an ungrateful wretch, it never remembers past favors, it always wants more tomorrow.
- If I were asked today to formulate as concisely as possible what was the main cause of the ruinous revolution that swallowed up some 60…
- The earlier, the more fun. Why put it off? It’s the atomic age!
- Like a bicycle, like a wheel that, once rolling, is stable only so long as it keeps moving but falls when its momentum stops, so…
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- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
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- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- The whole is more than the sum of its parts. — Aristotle