"For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones."
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Government
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
More From Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- "The next war… may well bury Western civilization forever."
- "Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag."
- "I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either."
More In Government
- "Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships; the poor man everywhere lies low."― Ovid
- "We are all used to paying a sales tax when we buy things – almost 9 percent here in New York City. The application of this concept to the financial sector could solve our need for revenue, bring some sanity back into the financial sector, and give us a way to raise the revenue we need to run the government in a fiscally responsible way."― Eliot Spitzer
- "Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated."― Andrew Jackson