New Quotations in English
Don't allow fratricidal bloodbath, or inhumanity can win.
Не стреляй! ("Don't shoot!")
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
We live in a world of abstraction, a world of bureaucracy and machinery, of absolute ideas and of messianism without subtlety.
The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.
I have something that I call my Golden Rule. It goes something like this: "Do unto others twenty-five percent better than you expect them to do unto you." … The twenty-five percent is for error.
It is naively assumed that the fact that the majority of people share certain ideas and feelings proves the validity of these ideas and feelings. Nothing could be further from the truth. Consensual validation as such has no bearing on reason or mental health.
A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self.
