Violence can only be concealed by a Lie, & the Lie can only be maintained by Violence.... Any man, who has once proclaimed Violence as his Method, is inevitably forced to take the Lie as his Principle. (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)

Violence can only be concealed by a Lie, & the Lie can only be maintained by Violence.... Any man, who has once proclaimed Violence as his Method, is inevitably forced to take the Lie as his Principle.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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