Occupation: Novelist Birth: December 11, 1918 Death: August 3, 2008
Bless you prison, bless you for being in my life. For there, lying upon the rotting prison straw, I came to realize that the object of life is not pr….
The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. "One word of truth outweighs the world..
In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State..
To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good... Ideology - that is what gives devildoing its long-sought justifica….
If I were called upon to identify briefly the principal trait of the entire 20th century... I would be unable to find anything more precise and pithy….
We have to condemn publicly the very idea that some people have the right to repress others... When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers ... we a….
If we don't know our own history, then we simply will have to endure all of the same mistakes, all of the same sacrifices, all of the same absurditie….
The strength or weakness of a society depends more on the level of its spiritual life than on its level of industrialization. Neither a market econom….
Evil people always support each other; that is their chief strength..
You must understand, the leading Bolsheviks who took over Russia were not Russians. They hated Russians. They hated Christians. Driven by ethnic hatr….
What would things been like [in Russia] if during periods of mass arrests people had not simply sat there, paling with terror at every bang on the do….
If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate the….
We hear a constant clamor for rights, rights, always rights, but so very little about responsibility. And we have forgotten God. The need now is for ….
The generation now coming out of Western schools is unable to distinguish good from bad. Even those words are unacceptable. This results in impaired ….
It's an universal law-- intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas tr….
If 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 ou….
I hope that no one present will suspect me of offering my personal criticism of the Western system to present socialism as an alternative. Having exp….
A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny..
Modern society is hypnotized by socialism. It is prevented by socialism from seeing the mortal danger it is in. And one of the greatest dangers of al….
Such as it is, the press has become the greatest power within the Western World, more powerful than the legislature, the executive and judiciary. One….
Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty..