Human rights' are a fine thing, but how can we make ourselves sure that our rights do not expand at the expense of the rights of others. A society with unlimited rights is incapable of standing to adversity. If we do not wish to be ruled by a coercive authority, then each of us must rein himself in...A stable society is achieved not by balancing opposing forces but by conscious self-limitation: by the principle that we are always duty-bound to defer to the sense of moral justice.

In Germany Solzhenitsyn lived in Heinrich Böll's house in Cologne. After returning to Russia in 1994 Solzhenitsyn publiAleksandr Solzhenitsynd eight two-part short stories a series of contemplative "miniatures" or prose poems a literary memoir on his years in the West (The Grain Between the Millstones) among many other writings. [citation needed] Solzhenitsyn studied mathematics at Rostov State University.

Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (pron. He was expelled from the Soviet Union in 1974 but returned to Russia in 1994 after the Soviet system had collapsed.