It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed. – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Our government declared that it is conducting some kind of great reforms. In reality, no real reforms were begun and no one at any point has declared a coherent programme. – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience… from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation. – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man. – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. Schools tell you how to think. TV. Religion. And then at a certain point, if youre lucky, you realize you can make up your own mind. Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life. – Carrie-Anne Moss