When Is A Crisis Reached? When Questions

The Tradition Of Russian Literature Is Also An Eastern Tradition Of Learning Poetry And Prose By Heart.

A Population Weakened And Exhausted By Battling Against So Many Obstacles - Whose Needs Are Never Satisfied And Desires Never Fulfilled - Is Vulnerable To Manipulation And Regimentation. The Struggle For Survival Is, Above All, An Exercise That Is Hugely Time-consuming, Absorbing And Debilitating. If You Create These ''anti-conditions,'' Your Rule Is Guaranteed For A Hundred Years.

A Journey, After All, Neither Begins In The Instant We Set Out, Nor Ends When We Have Reached Our Door Step Once Again. It Starts Much Earlier And Is Really Never Over, Because The Film Of Memory Continues Running On Inside Of Us Long After We Have Come To A Physical Standstill. Indeed, There Exists Something Like A Contagion Of Travel, And The Disease Is Essentially Incurable.

The So-called New Russian Man Is Characterized Mainly By His Complete Exhaustion. You May Find Yourself Wondering If He Has The Strength To Enjoy His New-found Freedom. He Is Like A Long-distance Runner Who, On Reaching The Finishing Line, Is Incapable Even Of Raising His Hands In A Gesture Of Victory.

First You Destroy Those Who Create Values. Then You Destroy Those Who Know What The Values Are, And Who Also Know That Those Destroyed Before Were In Fact The Creators Of Values. But Real Barbarism Begins When No One Can Any Longer Judge Or Know That What He Does Is Barbaric.