It Lies In Human Nature

You Do Not Become A ''dissident'' Just Because You Decide One Day To Take Up This Most Unusual Career. You Are Thrown Into It By Your Personal Sense Of Responsibility, Combined With A Complex Set Of External Circumstances. You Are Cast Out Of The Existing Structures And Placed In A Position Of Conflict With Them. It Begins As An Attempt To Do Your Work Well, And Ends With Being Branded An Enemy Of Society.

The Only Thing I Can Recommend At This Stage Is A Sense Of Humor, An Ability To See Things In Their Ridiculous And Absurd Dimensions, To Laugh At Others And At Ourselves, A Sense Of Irony Regarding Everything That Calls Out For Parody In This World. In Other Words, I Can Only Recommend Perspective And Distance.

Human Rights, Human Freedoms... And Human Dignity Have Their Deepest Roots Somewhere Outside The Perceptible World... While The State Is A Human Creation, Human Beings Are The Creation Of God.

When A Person Tries To Act In Accordance With His Conscience, When He Tries To Speak The Truth, When He Tries To Behave Like A Citizen, Even In Conditions Where Citizenship Is Degraded, It Won't Necessarily Lead Anywhere, But It Might. There's One Thing, However, That Will Never Lead Anywhere, And That Is Speculating That Such Behavior Will Lead Somewhere.

Ownership Is Not A Vice, Not Something To Be Ashamed Of, But Rather A Commitment, And An Instrument By Which The General Good Can Be Served.