Vandor

“In all the universe only the human race has ever reached a high level of intelligence without reaching a high level of sanity. We are unique.”
― Fredric Brown, Letter to a Phoenix

“Public opinion! I don’t know how sociologists define it, but it seems obvious to me that it can only consist of interacting individual opinions, freely expressed and independent of government or party opinion. So long as there is no independent public opinion in our country, there is no guarantee that the extermination of millions and millions for no good reason will not happen again, that it will not begin any night – perhaps this very night.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago

“I am indeed thrown arbitrarily into history. I therefore choose to voluntarily shoulder the responsibility of my advantages and the burden of my disadvantages—like every other individual. I am morally bound to pay for my advantages with my responsibility. I am morally bound to accept my disadvantages as the price I pay for being. I will therefore strive not to descend into bitterness and then seek vengeance because I have less to my credit and a greater burden to stumble forward with than others.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago

“suppression of free speech is a symptom of tyranny.”
― Konstantin Kisin, An Immigrant's Love Letter to the West