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

— Andrei Sakharov Progress, Coexistence and Intellectual Freedom (1968)

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Both now and for always, I intend to hold fast to my belief in the hidden strength of the human spirit.

Nobel autobiography (1975)

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)

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)

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