Quotes from Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

Children are the only bold philosophers. And bold philosophers are invariably children.

Happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative.

A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn't even be worth reading.

You are afraid of it because it is stronger than you you hate it because you are afraid of it you love it because you cannot subdue it to your will. Only the unsubduable can be loved.

The government (or humanity) would not permit capital punishment for one man, but they permitted the murder of millions a little at a time.

The only means of ridding man of crime is ridding him of freedom.