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More Quotes by Yevgeny Zamyatin
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.
Explosions are not comfortable.
You're in bad shape. It looks like you're developing a soul.
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.
There are books of the same chemical composition as dynamite. The only difference is that a piece of dynamite explodes once, whereas a book explodes a thousand times.
Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought.
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.
The only means of ridding man of crime is ridding him of freedom.
If we have no heretics we must invent them, for heresy is essential to health and growth.
