MORE FROM SOLZHENITSYN, AUGUST 1914
I finally picked up this book again and began reading the last thrid. There were three lines and/or paragraphs that caught my interest in the first three pages I read today. Here they are for your out of context perusal:
“When things are too clear, they are no longer interesting”
“Don’t the people have any obligations? Or do they only have rights?”
“Obviously one kind of social order is less evil than all the others. Perhaps there may even be a perfect one. Only remember, my friends, that the best social order is not susceptible to being arbitrarily constructed, or even scientifically constructed… Do not be so arrogant as to imagine that you can invent an ideal social order, because with that invention you may destroy your own beloved ‘people’…”
