More Quotes by Yevgeny Zamyatin
There is an excellent way to make predictions without the slightest risk of error: predict the past.
We need writers who fear nothing. ("Our Goal")
Crossing out is an art that is, perhaps, even more difficult than writing. It requires the sharpest eye to decide what is superfluous and must be removed. And it requires ruthlessness toward yourself -- the greatest ruthlessness and self-sacrifice. You must know how to sacrifice parts in the name of the whole.
Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought.
You're in bad shape. It looks like you're developing a soul.
There is no final one; revolutions are infinite.
Children are the only brave philosophers. And brave philosophers are, inevitably, children.
It is an error to divide people into the living and the dead: there are people who are dead-alive, and people who are alive-alive. The dead-alive also write, walk, speak, act. But they make no mistakes; only machines make no mistakes, and they produce only dead things. The alive-alive are constantly in error, in search, in questions, in torment.
If we have no heretics we must invent them, for heresy is essential to health and growth.
The only means of ridding man of crime is ridding him of freedom.
