“The circle-is it closed? And is there really no way out? ... Maybe something will happen by itself? It will never happen as long as we daily acknowledge, extol, and strengthen—and do not sever ourselves from the most perceptible of its aspects: Lies.”

“Now that the axes have done their work, when everything which was sown has sprouted anew, we can see that the young and presumptuous people who thought they would make our country just & happy through terror, bloody rebellion and civil war were themselves misled.”

“And he who is not sufficiently courageous even to defend his soul—don't let him be proud of his ‘progressive’ views, don't let him boast that he is an academician or a people's artist, a merited figure, or a general—let him say to himself: I am in the herd, and a coward.”

'What sort of responsibility does a journalist...have to the readership or to history? If they have misled public opinion by inaccurate information or wrong conclusions, ...do we know of any case of open regret voiced by the same journalist...? No; this would damage sales.'

“It’s high time to remember that our first allegiance is to the human race. And the human race broke away from the animal world through thought and speech. It is natural that these should be free. And if they are shackled we return to our animal state.”

“Suppression of information leads to entropy and total destruction.”

“In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousand fold in the future.“

“Even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained. And even in the best of all hearts, there remains… an unuprooted small corner of evil.”

“[L]et each of us make a choice: Whether consciously, to remain a servant of falsehood...or to shrug off the lies and become an honest man worthy of respect both by one's children and contemporaries.”

“Better to be dead than a scoundrel.”

“A revolution never brings prosperity to a nation, but benefits only a few shameless opportunists...'

“The Western world has lost its civic courage, both as a whole and separately, in each country, in each government, in each political party, and, of course, in the United Nations.“

'[A]s is so often the case with matters of social significance, we only notice things that are not contradictory to our own feelings.'

“It is not a United Nations Organization but a United Governments Organization where all governments stand equal; those which are freely elected, those imposed forcibly, and those which have seized power with weapons.”

“The simplest and most accessible key to our self-neglected liberation lies right here: Personal non-participation in lies.”

“When violence intrudes into peaceful life, its face glows with self-confidence.... But violence quickly grows old. And it has lost confidence in itself, and in order to maintain a respectable face it summons falsehood as its ally.”

#Solzhenitsyn

“It is forbidden to write not merely about something taking place in the present but even about things that took place thirty and fifty years ago. And will we ever read about them during our lifetime? We are destined to go to our graves still immersed in lies and falsehoods.

“It is characteristic that communism is so devoid of arguments that it has none to advance against its opponents in our communist countries. Arguments are lacking and, therefore, there is the club, the prison, the concentration camp and asylums for the insane with forced