In every life there is one particular event that is decisive for the entire person-for his fate, his convictions, his passions.
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynTruth must be told-and things must change! If words are not about real things and do not cause things to happen, what is the good of them?
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynA whole week, a single campaign, a month, a week, even a day was far more than enough to cut a company or platoon to ribbons or cripple a man for life: it needed only a quarter of an hour.
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynEuropean democracy was originally imbued with a sense of Christian responsibility and self-discipline, but these spiritual principles have been gradually losing their force. Spiritual independence is being pressured on all sides by the dictatorship of self-satisfied vulgarity, of the latest fads, and of group interests.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn