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Quotes from Progress, Coexistence and Intellectual Freedom — Andrei Sakharov

1921–1989 Russia

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Nothing threatens freedom of the personality and the meaning of life like war, poverty, terror. But there are also indirect and only slightly more remote dangers.

Progress, Coexistence and Intellectual Freedom (1968)

All-out nuclear war would mean the destruction of contemporary civilization, throw man back centuries, cause the deaths of hundreds of millions or billions of people, and, with a certain degree of probability, would cause man to be destroyed as a biological species.

Progress, Coexistence and Intellectual Freedom (1968)

Millions of people throughout the world are striving to put an end to poverty.

Progress, Coexistence and Intellectual Freedom (1968)

They believe in progress based on the use, under conditions of social justice and intellectual freedom, of all the positive experience accumulated by mankind.

Progress, Coexistence and Intellectual Freedom (1968)

Intellectual freedom is essential to human society — freedom to obtain and distribute information, freedom for open-minded and unfearing debate, and freedom from pressure by officialdom and prejudices.

Progress, Coexistence and Intellectual Freedom (1968)

The strategy of peaceful coexistence and collaboration must be deepened in every way.

Progress, Coexistence and Intellectual Freedom (1968)

We are often told lately not to "rub salt into wounds." This is usually being said by people who suffered no wounds.

Progress, Coexistence and Intellectual Freedom (1968)

Both Marx and Lenin always stressed the viciousness of a bureaucratic system as the opposite of a democratic system.

Progress, Coexistence and Intellectual Freedom (1968)

The anti-people's regime of Stalin remained equally cruel and at the same time dogmatically narrow and blind in its cruelty.

Progress, Coexistence and Intellectual Freedom (1968)

Freedom of thought is the only guarantee of the feasibility of a scientific democratic approach to politics, economy, and culture.

Progress, Coexistence and Intellectual Freedom (1968)

We regard as "scientific" a method based on deep analysis of facts, theories, and views, presupposing unprejudiced, unfearing open discussion and conclusions.

Progress, Coexistence and Intellectual Freedom (1968)

The worldwide dangers of war, famine, cults of personality, and bureaucracy — these are perils for all of mankind.

Progress, Coexistence and Intellectual Freedom (1968)

All peoples have the right to decide their own fate with a free expression of will.

Progress, Coexistence and Intellectual Freedom (1968)

If mankind is to get away from the brink, it must overcome its divisions.

Progress, Coexistence and Intellectual Freedom (1968)

The division of mankind threatens it with destruction.

Progress, Coexistence and Intellectual Freedom (1968)

It is imperative that we restrict in every possible way the influence of neo-Stalinists in our political life.

Progress, Coexistence and Intellectual Freedom (1968)

I want to emphasize that the question of regulating birth rates is highly complex and that any standardized, dogmatic solution "for all time and all peoples" would be wrong.

Progress, Coexistence and Intellectual Freedom (1968)

The salvation of our environment requires that we overcome our divisions and the pressure of temporary, local interests.

Progress, Coexistence and Intellectual Freedom (1968)

Without socialism, bourgeois practices and the egotistical principle of private ownership gave rise to the "people of the abyss" described by Jack London and earlier by Engels.

Progress, Coexistence and Intellectual Freedom (1968)

A thermonuclear war cannot be considered a continuation of politics by other means (according to the formula of Clausewitz). It would be a means of universal suicide.

Progress, Coexistence and Intellectual Freedom (1968)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Andrei Sakharov (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.