Hatuxka

“And what was Solzhenitsyn doing at a time when the Soviet army - from soldier to general - and the entire Soviet people were carrying out their duty at the cost of their lives, this man who, according to the anti-communist yardstick, is a "true Russian patriot"? As soon as the Red Army came to the place where the military campaigns against the USSR had been masterminded, Solzhenitsyn could contain himself no longer. He saw the destruction of those whom he had always worshiped - the Prussian militarists, and he began spreading slanderous rumors aimed at undermining the morale of Soviet troops. Under war-time laws, he was removed from the army. Millions of soldiers went on to destroy the fascist beast, while Solzhenitsyn was shipped to the rear and to prison.”
― Nikolai N. Yakovlev, Solzhenitsyn's Archipelago of Lies

“Has not printing freed the education of the people from all political and religious shackles? It would be vain for any despotism to invade all the schools....The instruction that every man is free to receive from books in silence and solitude can never be completely corrupted. It is enough for there to exist one corner of free earth from which the press can scatter its leaves. How with the multitude of different books, with the innumerable copies of each book, of reprints that can be made available at a moment's notice, how could it be possible to bolt every door, to seal every crevice through which truth aspires to enter?”
― Marquis de Condorcet, Sketch for a Historical Picture of the Progress of the Human Mind: Library of Ideas

“The real purpose of studying heredity is to determine the relation of an organism of a given nature to its environmental conditions.”
― Trofim Lysenko, Heredity and Its Variability

“The ancient laws of nearly every nation are nothing more than offences against justice by the powerful and violations of the rights of all for the interests of the few...”
― Nicolas de Condorcet, Political Writings