Courage Means Going Against Majority Opinion In

I Think Its Important For One To Take A Certain Distance From Oneself.

A Genuinely Fundamental And Hopeful Improvement In "systems" Cannot Happen Without A Significant Shift In Human Consciousness.

Those Who Rebelled Against Totalitarian Rule And Those Who Simply Managed To Remain Themselves And Think Freely, Were All Persecuted. We Should Not Forget Any Of Those Who Paid For Our Present Freedom In One Way Or Another.

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.

I Am Convinced That We Will Never Build A Democratic State Based On Rule Of Law If We Do Not At The Same Time Build A State That Is-regardless Of How Unscientific This May Sound To The Ears Of A Political Scientist-humane, Moral, Intellectual And Spiritual, And Cultural.