Beth Stalker

“As the two-thousand-year-old saying goes, you can have eyes and still not see. But a hard life improves vision.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Cancer Ward

“in order to do evil, must first believe that what they are doing is good, otherwise they can't do it.”
― Alexander Solzhenitsyn

“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 stay on in the readers' memory. How many hasty, immature, superficial and misleading judgments are expressed every day, confusing readers, without any verification. The press can both simulate public opinion and miseducate it. Thus we may see terrorists heroized, or secret matters, pertaining to one's nation's defense, publicly revealed, or we may witness shameless intrusion on the privacy of well-known people under the slogan: "everyone is entitled to know everything." But this is a false slogan, characteristic of a false era: people also have the right not to know, and it is a much more valuable one. The right not to have their divine souls stuffed with gossip, nonsense, vain talk. A person who works and leads a meaningful life does not need this excessive burdening flow of information.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“If state, party and social policy will not be based on morality, then mankind has no future to speak of.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn