Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it prolongs one's well-being.”

“A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.”

“Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which are so dear to you - you do not even suspect that the day has already dawned outside.”

“The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed by its rubble.”

“For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion.”

“In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.”