Because instant and credible information has to be given, it becomes necessary to resort to guesswork, rumors and suppositions to fill in the voids, and none of them will ever be rectified, they will...
It was Dostoevsky, once again, who drew from the French Revolution and its seeming hatred of the Church the lesson that "revolution must necessarily begin with atheism." That is absolutely true. But t...
Shukhov ate his supper without bread--a double portion and bread on top of it would be too rich. So he'd save the bread. You get no thanks from your belly--it always forgets what you've just done for...
Writers haven't got any rockets to blast off. We don't even trundle the most insignificant auxiliary vehicle. We haven't got any military might. So what can literature do in the face of the merciless...
Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory...
The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.
If one is forever cautious can one remain a human being?
Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.
The concept of maximum promotion of human rights to the expense of the majority of people in fact undermines the entire concept of the human community.
Of course God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion that exists on earth represents some face, some side of God.
For a country to have a great writer is to have another government.
It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotio...
I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is...
When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
Someone that you have deprived of everything is no longer in your power. He is once again entirely free.
in order to do evil, must first believe that what they are doing is good, otherwise they can't do it.
It makes me happier, more secure, to think that I do not have to plan and manage everything for myself, that I am only a sword made sharp to smite the unclean forces, an enchanted sword to cleave and...
Our government declared that it is conducting some kind of great reforms. In reality, no real reforms were begun and no one at any point has declared a coherent programme.
The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
A decline in courage may be the most striking feature which an outside observer notices in the West in our days. The Western world has lost its civic courage both as a whole and separately in each c...