I have grown used to the fact that public repentance is the most unacceptable option for the modern politician.
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynMistakes are a great educator when one is honest enough to admit them and willing to learn from them
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynYou can resolve to live your life with integrity. Let your credo be this: Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me.
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynCommunist propaganda would sometimes include statements such as "we include almost all the commandments of the Gospel in our ideology". The difference is that the Gospel asks all this to be achieved through love, through self-limitation, but socialism only uses coercion. This is one point.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn