Andrei Sakharov Quotes

#1. I cannot think of a greater symbol of human resistance and courage than our Nobel laureate colleague Andrei Sakharov.

Torsten Wiesel

#2. For me, the moral difficulties lie in the continual pressure brought to bear on my friends and immediate family, pressure which is not directed against me personally but which at the same time is all around me.

Andrei Sakharov

#3. Our country, like every modern state, needs profound democratic reforms. It needs political and ideological pluralism, a mixed economy and protection of human rights and the opening up of society.

Andrei Sakharov

#4. Intellectual freedom is the only guarantee of a scientific - democratic approach to politics, economic development, and culture.

Andrei Sakharov

#5. Profound insights arise only in debate, with a possibility of counterargument, only when there is a possibility of expressing not only correct ideas but also dubious ideas.

Andrei Sakharov

#6. If I hadn't made it as an actor, I might have wound up a hood ...

Steve McQueen

#7. In 1947 I defended my thesis on nuclear physics, and in 1948 I was included in a group of research scientists whose task was to develop nuclear weapons.

Andrei Sakharov

#8. As Daniel Pink notes in To Sell Is Human, "Like it or not, we're all in sales now."4

Carmine Gallo

#9. She already had a headache-she didn't want to add 'get tortured' to today's to-do list.

C.C. Hunter

#10. I've always thought that the most powerful weapon in the world was the bomb and that's why I gave it to my people, but I've come to the conclusion that the most powerful weapon in the world is not the bomb but it's the truth

Andrei Sakharov

#11. A country which does not respect the rights of its own citizens will not respect the rights of its neighbours

Andrei Sakharov

#12. My present work concerns the problems connected with the theory of elementary particles, the theory of gravitation and cosmology and I shall be glad if I can manage to make some contribution to these important branches of science.

Andrei Sakharov

#13. In 1963 with Abington v. Schempp, The Court said that reading portions of the New Testament could be 'psychologically harmful' to the children.

Norman Geisler

#14. Do not trust governments more than governments trust their own people.

Andrei Sakharov

#15. Hill House, she thought, You're as hard to get into as heaven.

Shirley Jackson

#16. International affairs must be completely permeated with scientific methodology and a democratic spirit, with a fearless weighing of all facts, views, and theories, with maximum publicity of ultimate and intermediate goals, and with a consistency of principles.

Andrei Sakharov

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

Andrei Sakharov

#18. We should not minimize our sacred endeavors in this world, where, like faint glimmers in the dark, we have emerged ...

Andrei Sakharov

#19. In and after 1964 when I began to concern myself with the biological issues, and particularly from 1967 onwards, the extent of the problems over which I felt uneasy increased to such a point that in 1968 I felt a compelling urge to make my views public.

Andrei Sakharov

#20. I could not stop something I knew was wrong and terrible. I had an awful sense of powerlessness.

Andrei Sakharov

#21. You can use your tongue to slander, to gripe, to scold, to nag, and to quarrel; or you can bring it under the control of God's Spirit and make it an instrument of blessing and praise.

Billy Graham

#22. You can't sit on two chairs at once.

Andrei Sakharov

#23. Desire is the engine of creation.

Danielle LaPorte