Bilim, ahlaki değerler yaratmaz. Bilim maddi değerler yaratır.

Aşk; hayatın tümü demek değildir.

Shukhov had been told that this old man’d been in camps and prisons more years than you could count and had never come under any amnesty. When one ten-year stretch was over they slapped on...

Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either — but right through every human heart — and through...

Bütün insanların ölümlü olduğunu biliyordu, günün birinde kendisi de teslim olacaktı. Ancak günün birinde; şimdi değil. Günün birinde ölmek korkunç bir şey değildi hemen şimdi ölmekti korkunç olan. Niçin? Çünkü nasıl olacaktı? Daha sonrası neydi?...

Work was like a stick. It had two ends. When you worked for the knowing you gave them quality; when you worked for a fool you simply gave him eyewash.

The communist regime in the East could stand and grow due to the enthusiastic support from an enormous number of Western intellectuals who felt a kinship and refused to see communism’s crimes. When they no...

Oh, how hard it is to part with power! This one has to understand.

Herkes general olursa savaşı kazanacak kişi kalmaz.

Rub your eyes and purify your heart-and prize above all else in the world those who love you and who wish you well. Do not hurt them or scold them, and never part from any...

Writers haven’t got any rockets to blast off. We don’t even trundle the most insignificant auxiliary vehicle. We haven’t got any military might. So what can literature do in the face of the merciless onslaught...

Terminus dahü: Hastanın ameliyat masasında ölme ihtimali. Status idem: Hastanın durumu değişmemiş aynı. Rezektabl: Ameliyatla çıkarılabilir.

Bu büyük orucu niçin gereksiyoruz? Niye? Oruç, hem de büyük. Ama buna ne ihtiyacımız var? Demka bir türlü anlamıyordu; çünkü o, yaşantısının büyük bölümünü aç karınla geçirmişti.

And this man, who had sailed round Europe and navigated the Great Northern Route, leaned happily over half a ladleful of thin oatmeal kasha, cooked entirely without fat – just oats and water.

…it’s only on a black day that you begin to have friends.

Hademelerin kendi aralarında kullandıkları şu deyimin anlamını ise şimdi kavramıştı: ” Bu da yakında çarşaflanacak.

Work, he said, was a first-rate medicine for any illness.

It is here that we see the dawn of hope: for no matter how formidably Communism bristles with tanks and rockets, no matter what successes it attains in seizing the planet, it is doomed never...

Power is a poison well known for thousands of years. If only no one were ever to acquire material power over others! But to the human being who has faith in some force that holds...

O sonbahar, kendimi örnek alarak, insanın bedeni cansızlaşmadan önce ölümün eşiğinden geçebileceğini öğrendim. Kanınız bedeninizde dolaşabilir ama psikolojik olarak ölüm için bütün hazırlıkları yapmış, ölümün kendisine tahammül etmişsinizdir. Çevrenizdeki her şeyi mezardan seyrediyor gibi ilgisizce...

Or why should one refrain from burning hatred, whatever its basis–race, class, or ideology? Such hatred is in fact corroding many hearts today. Atheist teachers in the West are bringing up a younger generation in...

Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.

1) Wir haben lang genug geliebt…2) Wir Wollen endlich hassen!3) Wir haben lang genug gehasst4) Wir wollen endlich lieben!1) Yeterince sevdik.2) Artık nefret etmek istiyoruz.3) Yeterince nefret ettik.4) Artık sevmek istiyoruz.

Eğer insanoğlu hiç hastalanmazsa, isteklerine sınır tanımaz.

It’s an universal law– intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound education breeds humility.

in order to do evil, must first believe that what they are doing is good, otherwise they can’t do it.

Bizi mutlu kılan yaşama düzeyimiz değil, duyuş, hayata bakış açımızdır.

The concept of maximum promotion of human rights to the expense of the majority of people in fact undermines the entire concept of the human community.

The belly is an ungrateful wretch, it never remembers past favors, it always wants more tomorrow.

Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.

Özgürlük, özgürlüğü için her gün mücadele edenin hakkıdır.

It was Dostoevsky, once again, who drew from the French Revolution and its seeming hatred of the Church the lesson that “revolution must necessarily begin with atheism.” That is absolutely true. But the world had...

We always pay dearly for chasing after what is cheap.

Her köyde onu ayakta tutan bir doğru vardır.

Büyükanne daima “Kızağını yazdan, arabanı kıştan hazırla” derdi.

Violence does not necessarily take people by the throat and strangle them. Usually it demands no more than an ultimate allegiance from its subjects. They are required merely to become accomplices in its lies.

Live with a steady superiority over life-don’t be afraid of misfortune, and do not yearn after happiness; it is, after all, all the same: the bitter doesn’t last forever, and the sweet never fills the...

İnsanın en değerli mülkü hayatıdır.

Shukhov ate his supper without bread–a double portion and bread on top of it would be too rich. So he’d save the bread. You get no thanks from your belly–it always forgets what you’ve just...

Nos instruyen y preparan en la juventud para una profesión, para cumplir los deberes ciudadanos, para el servicio militar, nos enseñaban las reglas del aseo, a comportarnos bien y hasta a comprender lo bello (esto...

Tanrı’ya karşı olduğumu sanma, dedi. Tanrı’ya inancım tamdır. Yalnız cennet ve cehenneme inanmıyorum işte. İnsanları aptal yerine koyup onları öbür dünyada cennete, ya da cehenneme gideceklerini söylemek bence saçmalığın en büyüğü.

İçlerinde en serti ve en ciddisi hastabakıcı Olimpiada Vladislavovna idi, çünkü onun için hastaları dolaşmak bir Diyakos’un (*) dinsel töreni gibi bir şeydi.

On the way from the Renaissance to our days we have enriched our experience, but we have lost the concept of a Supreme Complete Entity which used to restrain our passions and our irresponsibility. We...

Our life consists not in the pursuit of material success but in the quest for worthy spiritual growth. Our entire earthly existence is but a transitional stage in the movement toward something higher, and we...

The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. “One word of truth outweighs the world.

Bir insanın gençken kuvvetli karakteri yoksa, bir daha da olmaz.

Adlar daima insana dert oluyordu. Hayat ve zevkler değişir ama adlar kalır.

Freedom or prison–what’s the difference? A man must develop unwavering will power subject only to his reason.

Human rights’ are a fine thing, but how can we make ourselves sure that our rights do not expand at the expense of the rights of others. A society with unlimited rights is incapable of...

Ölümden önce meşalesi yanan bir kimsenin ışığı sonsuzluğa kadar devam eder.