During my time in the camps, I had got to know the enemies of the human race quite well: they respect the big fist and nothing else; the harder you slug them, the safer you will be.
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynEven the most broad-minded of us can embrace only that part of truth into which our own snout has blundered.
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynWoe to that nation whose literature is disturbed by the intervention of power. Because that is not just a violation against "freedom of print," it is the closing down of the heart of the nation, a slashing to pieces of its memory.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn