Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press. - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century.

You only have power over people as long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power — he's free again.

If one looks far into the future, one can foresee in the 21st century such a time when the U.S. together with Europe will be in dire need of Russia as an ally. ...It is puzzling only for those who don't look into the future and do not see what kind of new powers are arising in the world...

As the two-thousand-year-old saying goes, you can have eyes and still not see. But a hard life improves vision.