- As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.... Boris Pasternak {view}
- The writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass age. To his orthodox contemporaries he seems a semi-madman.... Boris Pasternak {view}
- What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.... Boris Pasternak {view}