I have grown used to the fact that public repentance is the most unacceptable option for the modern politician.
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynWhen we feel that we are not sufficiently respected, we should ask ourselves whether we are living as we should.
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynGradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either - but right through every human heart...
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynIn our country they do not permit any information to be X-rayed through and through, nor any discussion to encompass all the facets of a subject. All this is invariably suppressed at the very beginning, so no ray of light should fall on the naked body of truth. And then all this is piled up in one formless heap covering many years, where it languishes for whole decades, until all interest and all means of sorting out the rusty blocks from all this trash are lost.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn