Freedom or prison--what's the difference? A man must develop unwavering will power subject only to his reason.
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynViolence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynWho 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 Solzhenitsyn