Andrei Sakharov
Soviet · 1921–1989
Soviet nuclear physicist turned dissident and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, who helped create the hydrogen bomb before devoting his life to nuclear disarmament, intellectual freedom, and the convergence of political systems toward shared human values.
Wikipedia ↗“Интеллектуальная свобода необходима человеческому обществу — свобода получения и распространения информации.”
Russian
“Intellectual freedom is essential to human society. Freedom of thought is the only guarantee against an infection of people by mass myths, which, in the hands of treacherous hypocrites and demagogues, can be transformed into bloody dictatorships.”
“Идеология ядерного сдерживания — опасная иллюзия.”
Russian
“The ideology of nuclear deterrence is a dangerous illusion. No one can guarantee that nuclear weapons won't be used. Each passing year increases the danger. The only real solution is complete nuclear disarmament.”
“Я предвижу всеобщую информационную систему, которая предоставит каждому доступ к содержанию любой книги.”
Russian
“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, and to all the facts and ideas that have been accumulated by civilization.”
“Я убеждён, что международное доверие, взаимопонимание, разоружение и международная безопасность немыслимы без открытого общества.”
Russian
“I am convinced that international confidence, mutual understanding, disarmament, and international security are inconceivable without an open society with freedom of information, freedom of conscience, the right to publish, and the right to travel.”
“Я считаю принцип защиты прав человека единственной надёжной основой для подлинного международного сотрудничества.”
Russian
“I regard the principle of the defense of human rights as the only sure basis for genuine and lasting international cooperation. A country that does not respect the rights of its own citizens will not respect the rights of its neighbors.”
“Тысячи лет назад человеческие племена проходили через великий духовный кризис.”
Russian
“Thousands of years ago, human tribes passaged through a great spiritual crisis. Paganism was overcome by a new idea — monotheism. We are living through a similar crisis now, requiring a new idea: the idea that human rights are universal.”