Over a half century ago, while I was still a child, I recall hearing a number of old people offer the following explanation for the great disasters that had befallen Russia: “Men have forgotten God; that’s why all this has happened.” Since then I have spent well-nigh 50 years working on the history of our revolution; in the process I have read hundreds of books, collected hundreds of personal testimonies, and have already contributed eight volumes of my own toward the effort of clearing away the rubble left by that upheaval. But if I were asked today to formulate as concisely as possible the main cause of the ruinous revolution that swallowed up some 60 million of our people, I could not put it more accurately than to repeat: “Men have forgotten God; that’s why all this has happened.”
The potential for abuse of this quote is too high. While it’s an example of how even absurd amounts of research can fail to move a religious thought, too many people will fail to get the joke.
--Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Edit: Ooops old thread.
The potential for abuse of this quote is too high. While it’s an example of how even absurd amounts of research can fail to move a religious thought, too many people will fail to get the joke.
--”um” on me posting that quote