“Your punishment for having a knife when they searched you would be very different from the thief’s. For him to have a knife was mere misbehavior, tradition, he didn’t know any better. But for you to have one was ‘terrorism.’”. #Solzhenitsyn.

"Communism is as crude an attempt to explain society and the individual as if a surgeon were to perform his delicate operations with a meat ax.".

"Marxism has always opposed freedom.".

“How many of those renunciations there were at that time! Some of them made in public, some of them in the press: ‘I, the undersigned, from such and such a date renounce my father and my mother as enemies of the Soviet people.’ And thus they purchased their lives.”.

"The Communist Manifesto . which everyone knows by name, and which almost no one ever takes the trouble to read, contains even more terrible things than what has actually been done.".

“They burned out whole nests, whole families, from the start; and they watched jealously to be sure that none of the children-fourteen, ten, even six years old-got away: to the last scrapings, all had to go down the same road, to the same common destruction.”.

“The whole world can read, everyone is literate, but somehow nobody wants to understand. Humanity acts as if it does not understand what communism is, as if it does not want to understand, as if it were unable to understand.”.

"It can happen. It is possible. As a Russian proverb says: 'When it happens to you, you'll know it's true.' . But do we really have to wait for the moment when the knife is at our throat?".

“Socialism has created the illusion of quenching people's thirst for justice.”.

“It is not our level of prosperity that makes for happiness but the kinship of heart to heart and the way we look at the world. Both attitudes lie within our power so that a man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy, and no one can stop him.”.

“Socialism has created the illusion of quenching people's thirst for justice: Socialism has lulled their conscience into thinking that the steamroller which is about to flatten them is a blessing in disguise, a salvation.”.

“Many of you have already found out and others will find out in the course of their lives that the truth eludes us if we do not concentrate with total attention on its pursuit.”.

“Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice.”.

"We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.".

“Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the process loses his soul.”.

“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.”.

“We were so worn out by decades of lying nonsense that we yearned for any scrap of truth no matter how tattered.”.

“Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.”.

"It is a system where. every foreigner who wants to see the country is surrounded by several planted agents working according to a fixed scenario.".

“How many of those renunciations there were at that time! Some of them made in public, some of them in the press: ‘I, the undersigned, from such and such a date renounce my father and my mother as enemies of the Soviet people.’ And thus they purchased their lives.”.

“Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either—but right through every human heart—and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the.