We have to condemn the very idea that some people have the right to repress others.
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynIn every life there is one particular event that is decisive for the entire person-for his fate, his convictions, his passions.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn... some kind of clean, pure feeling does live within us, existing apart from all our convictions.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn... We brush aside all scales not our own, as if they were follies or delusions.
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynEvery man always has handy a dozen glib little reasons why he is right not to sacrifice himself.
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynWhat would things been like [in Russia] if during periods of mass arrests people had not simply sat there, paling with terror at every bang on the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but understood they had nothing to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people?
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn