A great disaster had befallen Russia: Men have forgotten God; that's why all this has happened.
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynThat which is called humanism, but what would be more correctly called irreligious anthropocentrism, cannot yield answers to the most essential questions of our life
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynTruth must be told-and things must change! If words are not about real things and do not cause things to happen, what is the good of them?
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynHe had drawn many a thousand of these rations in prisons and camps, and though he'd never had an opportunity to weight them on scales, and although, being a man of timid nature, he knew no way of standing up for his rights, he, like every other prisoner, had discovered long ago that honest weight was never to be found in the bread-cutting. There was short weight in every ration. The only point was how short. So every day you took a look to soothe your soul - today, maybe, they haven't snitched any.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn