Yevgeny Zamyatin, Islanders And, The Fisher Of Men

"Don't forget that we lawyers, we're a higher breed of intellect, and so it's our privilege to lie. It's as clear as day. Animals can't even imagine lying: if you were to find yourself among some wild islanders, they too would only speak the truth until they learned about European culture."

Yevgeny Zamyatin, Islanders And, The Fisher Of Men

"Cruel', O'Kelly laughed, 'it's cruel to tell children the truth. If anything convinces me of God's mercy, then it's his gift of making us unable to lie."

Yevgeny Zamyatin, Islanders And, The Fisher Of Men

"Accentuated plainness and accentuated vice ought to bring about harmony. Beauty lies in harmony, in style, whether it be the harmony of ugliness or beauty, vice or virtue."

Yevgeny Zamyatin, Islanders And, The Fisher Of Men

"...sentences of the court on moral issues are always passed in absentia."

Yevgeny Zamyatin, Islanders And, The Fisher Of Men