As the fathers live, so the children play.

The generation now coming out of Western schools is unable to distinguish good from bad. Even those words are unacceptable. This results in impaired thinking ability.

I dedicate this to all those who did not live to tell it. And may they please forgive me for not having seen it all nor remembered it all, for not having divined all of it - from The Gulag Archipelago

... We brush aside all scales not our own, as if they were follies or delusions.

First would be the literary side, then the spiritual and philosophical. The political side is required principally because of the necessity of the current Russian position.

When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Human beings are better and lazier than their rules and instructions.