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We Have Ceased to See the Purpose: Essential Speeches of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn We Have Ceased to See the Purpose: Essential Speeches of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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“terrorists can be sure that the chorus of public opinion guarantees that their lives will be safe, their causes advertised, and they themselves confined in decent conditions until such time as they are rescued by other terrorists.”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, We Have Ceased to See the Purpose: Essential Speeches of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“leveling out the basic elements of personality that display too much variability in education, aptitude, thought, and feeling.”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, We Have Ceased to See the Purpose: Essential Speeches of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“Europe?—it’s but an assemblage of cardboard stage sets, amongst which people bargain to see who can spend least on defense”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, We Have Ceased to See the Purpose: Essential Speeches of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“A society standing guard for terrorists!—that was precisely the case in Russia before her collapse:”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, We Have Ceased to See the Purpose: Essential Speeches of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“George Bernard Shaw’s shameful seventy-fifth-birthday trip in July 1931 to a starving USSR, his lavish reception there by Joseph Stalin, and his glib comments”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, We Have Ceased to See the Purpose: Essential Speeches of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“the universal sympathy for revolutionary extremists;”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, We Have Ceased to See the Purpose: Essential Speeches of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“the failure of journalists to take responsibility for the words they fling so readily;”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, We Have Ceased to See the Purpose: Essential Speeches of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“the timorousness of professors to find themselves outside the latest trends;”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, We Have Ceased to See the Purpose: Essential Speeches of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“the universal reverence of adult society for the opinion of children;”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, We Have Ceased to See the Purpose: Essential Speeches of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“Dostoevsky had predicted that socialism would cost Russia 100 million victims.2”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, We Have Ceased to See the Purpose: Essential Speeches of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“to consider man himself as irreproachable, and to place all blame on an inferior organization of society.”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, We Have Ceased to See the Purpose: Essential Speeches of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“whereas societies with access to every kind of information suddenly plunge into lethargic mass blindness, into voluntary self-deception?”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, We Have Ceased to See the Purpose: Essential Speeches of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn