Violence does not and cannot flourish by itself; it is inevitably intertwined with lying.
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynThe demands of internal growth are incomparably more important to us...than the need for any external expansion of our power.
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynEuropean 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 Solzhenitsyn