Andrei Sakharov

"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."

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

"Andrei Sakharov’s Ideas Today"

"I foresee a universal information system , which will give everyone access at any given moment to the contents of any book that has ever been published or any magazine or any fact. The UIS will have i…"

"The experience of past wars shows that the first use of a new technical or tactical method of attack is usually highly effective even if a simple antidote can soon be developed. But in a thermonuclear…"

"It is unbearable to consider that at this very moment that we are gathered together in this hall on this festive occasion, hundreds and thousands of prisoners of conscience are suffering from undernou…"

"I grew up in a large communal apartment where most of the rooms were occupied by my family and relations and only a few by outsiders. The house was pervaded by a strong traditional family spirit — a v…"

"Thousands of years ago, tribes of human beings suffered great privations in the struggle to survive. In this struggle it was important not only to be able to handle a club, but also to possess the abi…"