Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes (page 5)
Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.
For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.
First would be the literary side, then the spiritual and philosophical. The political side is required principally because of the necessity of the current Russian position.
Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.
Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.