We need writers who fear nothing. ("Our Goal") - Yevgeny Zamyatin
What we need in literature today are vast philosophic horizons; we need the most ultimate, the most fearsome, the most fearless 'Why?' and 'What next?'("Literature, Revolution, and Entropy") - Yevgeny Zamyatin
And how can there be a final revolution? There is no final one. The number of revolutions is infinite. - Yevgeny Zamyatin
If we have no heretics we must invent them, for heresy is essential to health and growth. - Yevgeny Zamyatin
Literature is painting, architecture, and music. - Yevgeny Zamyatin
The most effective way of destroying art is the canonization of one given form. And one philosophy. - Yevgeny Zamyatin
Heretics are the only [bitter] remedy against the entropy of human thought.("Literature, Revolution, and Entropy") - Yevgeny Zamyatin
The world is kept alive only by heretics: the heretic Christ, the heretic Copernicus, the heretic Tolstoy. Our symbol of faith is heresy. (Tomorrow) - Yevgeny Zamyatin
Revolution is everywhere, in everything. There is no final revolution, no final number. - Yevgeny Zamyatin