Scientific research? Only when not at the cost of ethics-and first of all, those of the researchers themselves.

For a country to have a great writer is to have another government.

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

But nothing is all black in nature.

Periods of rapid and fundamental change were never favourable for literature. Significant works, have nearly always and everywhere been created in periods of stability, be it good or bad.

... any country that is not careful can be seized.

Some are bound to die young. By dying young a person stays young in people's memory. If he burns brightly before he dies, his brightness shines for all time.