I have grown used to the fact that public repentance is the most unacceptable option for the modern politician.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn... We brush aside all scales not our own, as if they were follies or delusions.
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynIf I were asked today to formulate as concisely as possible what was the main cause of the ruinous revolution that swallowed up some 60 million of our people, I could not put it more accurately than to repeat: 'Men had forgotten God; that is why all this has happened.'
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynViolence does not and cannot flourish by itself; it is inevitably intertwined with lying.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn