Alexander I. Solzhenitsyn: When You've Robbed a Man of Everything...He is Free Again

Alexander I. Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008), Russian novelist and historian.

[Scroll down for the English]

KISWAHILI

"Unawamiliki juu ya watu tu mradi hauchukui kila kitu kutoka kwao. Lakini unapomnyang’anya mtu kila kitu, hayuko chini umaliki wako—yuko huru tena.”

- Alexander I. Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008), mwandishi wa Kirusi na mwanahistoria.

ENGLISH TRANSLATION

“You only 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—he’s free again.”

- Alexander I. Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008), Russian novelist and historian.

---

---

Chanzo (source): Solzhenitsyn, Alexander I. The First Circle, chapter 17, (1968; first published in English in 2009 as In the First Circle). In The New Yale Book of Quotations, edited by Fred R. Shapiro, pages 771-772. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 2021. Kindle edition.