A genius doesn't adjust his treatment of a theme to a tyrant's taste

Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.

Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.

... some kind of clean, pure feeling does live within us, existing apart from all our convictions.

I am of course confident that I will fulfill my tasks as a writer in all circumstances - from my grave even more successfully and more irrefutably than in my lifetime.

You must understand, the leading Bolsheviks who took over Russia were not Russians. They hated Russians. They hated Christians. Driven by ethnic hatred they tortured and slaughtered millions of Russians without a shred of human remorse. It cannot be overstated. Bolshevism committed the greatest human slaughter of all time. The fact that most of the world is ignorant and uncaring about this enormous crime is proof that the global media is in the hands of the perpetrators.

Truth seldom is pleasant; it is almost invariably bitter.