At War A Russian Man Puts On

The Divine Impeccability Of The Immortal [soviet] State Turned Out Not Only To Have Suppressed Individual Human Beings But Also To Have Defended Them, To Have Comforted Them In Their Weakness, To Have Justified Their Insignificance. The State Had Taken On Its Own Shoulders The Entire Weight Of Responsibility; It Had Liberated People From The Chimera Of Conscience.

In The Cruel And Terrible Time In Which Our Generation Has Been Condemned To Live On This Earth, We Must Never Make Peace With Evil. We Must Never Become Indifferent To Others Or Undemanding Of Ourselves.

There Are People Whose Souls Have Just Withered, People Who Are Willing To Go Along With Anything Evil - Anything So As Not To Be Suspected Of Disagreeing With Whoever Is In Power.

Good Men And Bad Men Alike Are Capable Of Weakness. The Difference Is Simply That A Bad Man Will Be Proud All His Life Of One Good Deed - While An Honest Man Is Hardly Aware Of His Good Acts, But Remembers A Single Sin For Years On End.

I Don't Want You To Be Young And Beautiful. I Only Want One Thing. I Want You To Be Kind-hearted - And Not Just Towards Cats And Dogs.