Quotes by Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pill >>

I am of course confident that I will fulfill my tasks as a writer in a >>

Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw >>

Quotations about Censorship

It is useless to close the gates against ideas; they overlap them. >>

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read >>

I am of course confident that I will fulfill my tasks as a writer in a >>

I am of course confident that I will fulfill my tasks as a writer in all circumstances -- from my grave even more successfully and more irrefutably than in my lifetime. No one can bar the road to truth, and to advance its cause I am prepared to accept even death. But may it be that repeated lessons will finally teach us not to stop the writer's pen during his lifetime? At no time has this ennobled our history.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander