“Violence does not and cannot flourish by itself; it is inevitably intertwined with lying.”
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Famous Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes
“In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.”
“Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.”
“When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.”
“The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.”
Source: The Gulag Archipelago Volume 2: An Experiment in Literary Investigation
“It is within the power of writers and artists to do much more: to defeat the lie!”