Yevgeny Zamyatin

“The only means of ridding man of crime is ridding him of freedom.”

“And that is the whole secret of happiness and virtue: to love what you are forced to do.”

“There is no final revolution. Revolutions are infinite.”

“If the world is to be cleansed of evil, it must be cleansed of freedom.”

“True literature can exist only when it is created, not by diligent and trustworthy functionaries, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels and skeptics.”

“A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn't be worth reading.”

“Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought.”

“Love and hunger rule the world.”

“Explosions are not comfortable. But they are not meek. And they are not obedient.”

“They were all happy, and they did not know they were happy. And this was the cause of their unhappiness.”

“To be a writer is to have an unhappy fate.”

“All truths are erroneous. This is the very essence of the dialectical process: today's truths become errors tomorrow; there is no final number.”