Who has the skill to make a narrow, obstinate human being aware of others' far-off grief and joy, to make him understand dimensions and delusions he himself has never lived through? Propaganda, coercion, and scientific proofs are powerless. But happily, in our world there is a way. It is art, and it is literature.
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynThe revolution is an amalgam of former Party functionaries, quasi- democrats, KGB officers, and black-market wheeler-dealers, who are standing in power now and have represented a dirty hybrid unseen in world history
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynAs for Europe, its claims towards Russia are fairly transparently based on fears about energy, unjustified fears at that.
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynIt is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn