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More Quotes by Yevgeny Zamyatin
Those two, in paradise, were given a choice: happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative.
Knowledge! What does that mean? Your knowledge is nothing but cowardice. No, really, that's all it is. You just want to put a little wall around infinity. And you're afraid to look on the other side of that wall.
We have lived through the epoch of suppression of the masses; we are living in an epoch of suppression of the individual in the name of the masses; tomorrow will bring the liberation of the individual - in the name of man.
The only means of ridding man of crime is ridding him of freedom.
There is no final one; revolutions are infinite.
Explosions are not comfortable.
Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought.
Children are the boldest philosophers. They enter life naked, not covered by the smallest fig leaf of dogma, absolutes, creeds. This is why every question they ask is so absurdly naïve and so frighteningly complex.
I prefer being wrong in my own way to being right in someone else's.
The most agonising thing is to drop doubt into a man about his being a reality, three-dimensional - and not some other kind of reality.