"The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. One word of truth outweighs the world."

-Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

"If God does not exist then everything is permitted."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky ( Central premise of the book 'The Brothers Karamazov'. Often attributed to Dostoevsky, may not have been said directly. )

"There can be only one permanent revolution — a moral one; the regeneration of the inner man. How is this revolution to take place? Nobody knows how it will take place in humanity, but every man feels it clearly in himself. And yet in our world everybody thinks of changing humanity, and nobody thinks of changing himself."

-Leo Tolstoy ( from “Three Methods Of Reform” in Pamphlets: Translated from the Russian (1900) )

"The skyline of New York is a monument of a splendor that no pyramids or palaces will ever equal or approach."

-Ayn Rand