Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quote

After the suffering of decades of violence and oppression, the human soul longs for higher things, warmer and purer than those offered by today's mass living habits, introduced as by a calling card by the revolting invasion of commercial advertising, by TV stupor and by intolerable music.


speech in Cambridge, Massachusetts, 8 June 1978


After the suffering of decades of violence and oppression, the human soul longs for higher things, warmer and purer than those offered by today's...

After the suffering of decades of violence and oppression, the human soul longs for higher things, warmer and purer than those offered by today's...

After the suffering of decades of violence and oppression, the human soul longs for higher things, warmer and purer than those offered by today's...

After the suffering of decades of violence and oppression, the human soul longs for higher things, warmer and purer than those offered by today's...