Even the most rational approach to ethics is defenseless if there isn't the will to do what is right.
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynThe one and only substitute for experience which we have not ourselves had is art, literature. We have been given a miraculous faculty: Despite the differences of language, customs and social structure we are able to communicate life experience from one whole nation to another, to communicate a difficult national experience many decades long which the second of the two has never experienced.
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynIt's true that private enterprise is extremely flexible, But its only good within very narrow limits. If private enterprise isn't held in an iron grip it gives birth to people who are no better than beasts, those stock-exchange people with greedy appetites beyond restraint.
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynTo do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn