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.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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 not quite worthy of man either.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.