My favorite Solzhenitsyn quotes:
“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 not quite worthy of man either.”
“You can have power over people as long as you don’t take everything away from them. But when you’ve robbed a man of everything, he’s no longer in your power.”
“...But when you’ve robbed a man of everything, he’s no longer in your power.”...”
Or as Bob Dylan put it “When you ain’t got nothin’, you got nothin’ to lose”.