“Death is not scary, nor long years of captivity — what is frightening is to live harnessed to petty worries and foolish burdens.” (Pavlo Hrabovskyi, 1864–1902 — Poet, publicist, political prisoner)

“First become purer in soul yourself, and only then try to make others purer.” (Mykola Gogol, 1809–1852 — Ukrainian Writer and thinker)

“Without honor, there is no human being.” (Yulian Vassyian, 1894–1953 — Ukrainian philosopher, political thinker)

“The greatest tragedy of a nation is when it stops distinguishing truth from lies.” (Yevhen Sverstiuk, 1928–2014 — Ukrainian philosopher, dissident, public intellectual)

“Slavery begins not with chains, but with consent.” (Ivan Bahrianyi, 1906–1963 — Writer, publicist, political thinker)

“The most terrifying weapon of tyranny is indifference.” (Ivan Dziuba, 1931–2022 — Literary critic, dissident, public intellectual)

“A nation that fears thinking is doomed to obey.” (Mykola Khvylovyi, 1893–1933 — Writer, ideologist of Ukrainian cultural renaissance)

“Ideas are stronger than armies when they are backed by morality.” (Levko Lukianenko, 1928–2018 — Dissident, politician, author of Ukraine’s Act of Independence)

“Truth does not need shouting. It stands on its own.” ( Ivan Svitlychnyi, 1929–1992 — Poet, dissident, moral authority)

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“History punishes not for mistakes, but for indifference to them.” ( Levko Lukianenko, 1928–2018 — Dissident, politician, author of the Act of Independence)

“The enemy’s greatest victory is when you cease to be yourself.” (Roman Shukhevych, 1907–1950 — Commander-in-Chief of the UPA)

“Slavery begins where a person agrees to live without honor.” (Yaroslav Stetsko, 1912–1986 — OUN leader, head of the Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations)

“We have no right to despair, because behind us stand those who are silent in graves.” ( Petro Poltava, 1921–1951 — Publicist, ideologist of the UPA)

“Morality is a weapon just as much as a rifle.” ( Vasyl Kuk, 1913–2007 — Last Commander-in-Chief of the UPA)

Compromise with falsehood always ends in defeat.” ( Mykhailo Stepaniak, 1903–1967 — OUN activist, political thinker)

“Ukraine is not a borderland, but a separate state with its own soul.” (Mykola Mikhnovskyi, 1873–1924 — Ideologist of Ukrainian independence, author of “Independent Ukraine”)

“We are not fighting for power, but for the right to be Ukrainians.” (Vasyl Chuchupaka, 1895–1920 — Ataman of the Kholodnyi Yar Republic)

“Better to perish standing than to live on one’s knees on one’s own land.” ( Atamans of Kholodnyi Yar, 1919–1922 — Leaders of the anti-Bolshevik insurgent movement)

“Freedom is easy to lose, but only the persistent can reclaim it.” (Petro Bolbochan, 1883–1919 — Colonel of the UNR Army)