Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes About Integrity
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To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good.
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We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err because this is more comfortable.
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In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousandfold in the future. When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers . . . we are ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations.
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You can resolve to live your life with integrity. Let your credo be this: Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me.
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