Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence. - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Goodbye, faithful critic. You will be missed.
It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn The name of "reform" simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
our lecture was just talking about him and his quote that "people in the west should think less about human rights and more about human obligations"
Sounds like an interesting character. I'll go read some of his publications. He was the most influential Russian writer?
