More Quotes by Yevgeny Zamyatin
You're in bad shape. It looks like you're developing a soul.
Explosions are not comfortable.
You're in a bad way! Apparently, you have developed a soul.
Those two, in paradise, were given a choice: happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative.
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.
The only means of ridding man of crime is ridding him of freedom.
I prefer being wrong in my own way to being right in someone else's.
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.
Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought.
If we have no heretics we must invent them, for heresy is essential to health and growth.
