I mean that at least 80% of the Russian people feel destitute. It's the people who had their past and future taken from them - they don't get paid - many of them face a wall. They have nowhere to go.


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Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere el...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN
- Не иначе как двенадцать, - объявил и Шухов. - Солнышко н...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN
My wish for you... is that your skeptic-eclectic brain be flooded with the light of truth.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN
The fact that no one made demands on her knowledge in her special field was lucky for Simochka. Not ...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN
So let the reader who expects this book to be a political exposé slam its covers shut right now. ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN
I am a wanderer passionately in love with life.
ALEKSANDR KUPRIN
Violence does not necessarily take people by the throat and strangle them. Usually it demands no mor...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN
The sole substitute for an experience we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN
You want the truth? I’ve been fucked and betrayed often enough to not trust anybody. And that incl...
ALEKSANDR VOINOV
Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his p...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN
Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN
(Please forgive us, reader. We have once more gone astray with this rightist opportunism—this conc...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN
Those who floated in the ark were weightless and had weightless thoughts. They were neither hungry n...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN
At no time have governments been moralists. They never imprisoned people and executed them for ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN No one, even as a joke, could call a member of the all-Union Communist Party a Neo-Hegelian, a Neo-K...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN
The name of 'reform' simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national h...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN
Where an open war is impossible, oppression can continue quietly behind the scenes. Terrorism. Guerr...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN
For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN
Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, n...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN
How can you expect a man who's warm to understand one who's cold?
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN
Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN
Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN
It wasn't poverty that drove me on.
ALEKSANDR KUPRIN
Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN
Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those ...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN
By apeculiar coincidence, the very day when I was giving my address in Washington, ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN In our village, folks say God crumbles up the old moon into stars.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN
You can build the Empire State Building. Train the Prussian army. Elevate the hierarchy of a totalit...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN
I think, ladies and gentlemen, and I particularly address those of you who have a socialist outlook,...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN
That’s all very well, but how many family doctors would you need? It simply doesn’t fit into the...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN
You only have power over people as long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN
He understood it then. The potential, the utter, unbelievable freedom to be whoever existed undernea...
ALEKSANDR VOINOV
Now for the first time you were about to see people who were not your enemies. Now for the first tim...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN
Here march the eaters of earth,
the swallowers of rain.
J. ALEKSANDR WOOTTON
Live in the moment... but don't be led by the moment, or the people who belong to it.
J. ALEKSANDR WOOTTON
The great risk of living is that we might not survive it.
J. ALEKSANDR WOOTTON
The more stories I study, the more I begin to suspect that there is only one story, and that ...
J. ALEKSANDR WOOTTON