Quote of the Day - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
"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 also less than worthy of man. A society based on the letter of the law and never reaching anything higher fails to take advantage of the full range of human possibilities."
"A World Split Apart"
Harvard Commencement Address 1978
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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