European democracy was originally imbued with a sense of Christian responsibility and self-discipline, but these spiritual principles have been gradually losing their force. Spiritual independence is being pressured on all sides by the dictatorship of self-satisfied vulgarity, of the latest fads, and of group interests.
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynThe name of 'reform' simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn