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… - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being.

Like a bicycle, like a wheel that, once rolling, is stable only so long as it keeps moving but falls when its momentum stops, so the game between a man and woman, once begun, can exist only so long as it progresses. If the forward movement today is no more than it was yesterday, the game is over.

No, the old proverb does not lie: Look for the brave in prison, and the stupid among the political leaders!

"Literature cannot develop between the categories "permitted" — "not permitted" — "this you can and that you can't." Literature that is not the air of its contemporary society, that dares not warn in time against threatening moral and social dangers, such literature does not deserve the name of literature; it is only a facade. Such literature loses the confidence of its own people, and its published works are used as waste paper instead of being read.
-Letter to the Fourth National Congress of Soviet Writers"