Clergyman's

The nationalism of a great nation inevitably degenerates into chauvinism and imperialism. The nationalism of a small nation is aimed primarily at the survival of the nation among others.
- Vasil Bykaŭ

After making public the gruesome discoveries made at the wasteland near Minsk, dozens of reports appeared in the press about similar mass graves uncovered in all regional centres of the Republic and many lesser towns. Who lies in these graves, who were the people shot in all those years, and - most importantly - who were the murderers? We have no answer yet to these questions, and one gets an impression that there are powerful forces not interested at all in such answers ever being given.
- Vasil Bykaŭ

In a society where every third person is a communist and every second person is an informer, it is difficult to expect to win by democratic means.
- Vasil Bykaŭ

In a society where every third person is a communist and every second person is an informer, it is difficult to expect to win by democratic means.
- Vasil Bykaŭ

Bureaucracy and culture are incompatible. Bureaucracy needs power, and culture is not wanted by it.
- Vasil Bykaŭ

The signing of the Union Treaty is not just sad. This is the crime of the century. This, of course, is the genocide of the Belarusian nation. This is the end of Belarusian history.
- Vasil Bykaŭ

The signing of the Union Treaty is not just sad. This is the crime of the century. This, of course, is the genocide of the Belarusian nation. This is the end of Belarusian history.
- Vasil Bykaŭ

The signing of the Union Treaty is not just sad. This is the crime of the century. This, of course, is the genocide of the Belarusian nation. This is the end of Belarusian history.
- Vasil Bykaŭ

Publishers have no tight to saturate the book market with works which have no demand, which do not get sold. It would be unnatural, both economically and also, probably, morally.
- Vasil Bykaŭ

Publishers have no tight to saturate the book market with works which have no demand, which do not get sold. It would be unnatural, both economically and also, probably, morally.
- Vasil Bykaŭ