| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 54578 |
| QUOTATION: | Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and 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. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Alexander Solzhenitsyn (b. 1918), Russian novelist. Nobel Prize lecture, 1973. Solzhenitsyn: A Documentary Record, ed. Leopold Labedz (1974). |
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