Aspects of Intellectual Ferment and Dissent in the Soviet UnionU.S. Government Printing Office, 1968 - 81 pages |
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Page 59 - In order to ensure to citizens freedom of conscience, the church in the USSR is separated from the state, and the school from the church. Freedom of religious worship and freedom of anti-religious propaganda is recognized for all citizens.
Page 18 - Give me the making of the songs of a nation and I care not who makes its laws.
Page 6 - ... than in my lifetime. No one can bar the road to truth, and, to advance its cause, I am prepared to accept even death. But may it be that repeated lessons will finally teach us not to stop the writer's pen during his lifetime?
Page 29 - Man, the individual, men and women, who will refuse always to be tricked or frightened or bribed into surrendering, not just the right but the duty too, to choose between justice and injustice, courage and cowardice, sacrifice and greed, pity and self; — who will believe always not only in the right of man to be free of injustice and rapacity and deception, but the duty and responsibility of Man to see that justice and truth and pity and compassion are done.
Page 38 - It is stupid to see in them the enemies of Soviet power, and more than stupid to let them rot in prisons and to mock them. For the party, such a line is equivalent to self-strangulation. Too bad for us if we are not capable of reaching an understanding with these young people. They will create, inevitably they will create, a new party. Ideas cannot be murdered with bullets, prisons, or exile. He who does not understand this is no politician, no Marxist. You, of course, remember the "Testament of...
Page 62 - John 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
Page 38 - Vol. 54, p. 446.) I believe that the persecution of young dissenters in a country where more than 50 percent of the population is younger than thirty years of age is an extremely dangerous line — adventurism. It is not...
Page 5 - If there are in the Constitution articles about freedom of speech and of the press, then have the patience to listen to criticism. In what kinds of countries is it forbidden to criticize the government and to protest against its actions? Perhaps in capitalist countries? No, we know that in bourgeois countries Communist parties exist whose purpose it is to undermine the capitalist system. In the USA, the Communist Party was suppressed.
Page 6 - I am of course confident that I will fulfil my duty as a writer in all circumstances - from the grave even more successfully and more irrefutably than in my lifetime. No one can bar the road to truth, and to advance its cause I am prepared to accept even death.