Who said “I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society…”?

“Lawyers I suppose were children once.”

“Every law is an infraction of liberty.”

“Laws, like houses, lean on one another.”

“Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.”

“If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.”

“For a country to have a great writer is like having another government. That's why no rTgime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.”

“Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.”

“Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which are so dear to you -- you do not even suspect that the day has already dawned outside.”

“Literature that is not the breath of contemporary society, that dares not transmit the pains and fears of that society, that does not warn in time against threatening moral and social dangers -- such literature does not deserve the name of literature; it is only a fatade. Such literature loses the confidence of its own people, and its published works are used as wastepaper instead of being read.”

“I am of course confident that I will fulfill my tasks as a writer in all circumstances -- from my grave even more successfully and more irrefutably than in my lifetime. No one can bar the road to truth, and to advance its cause I am prepared to accept even death. But may it be that repeated lessons will finally teach us not to stop the writer's pen during his lifetime? At no time has this ennobled our history.”

“Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.”