Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes

Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.

For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion.

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.

Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience… from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.