Until I [Alexandr Solzhenitsyn] came to the West myself and spent two years looking around, I could never have imagined to what an extreme degree the West had actually become a world without a will, a world gradually petrifying in the face of the danger confronting it..All of us are standing on the brink of a great historical cataclysm, a flood that swallows up civilization and changes whole epochs.
... "a disaster" rooted in agnosticism and atheism. ... "the calamity of an autonomous, irreligious humanistic consciousness."
"It has made man the measure of all things on earth--imperfect man, who is never free of pride, self-interest, envy, vanity, and dozens of other defects. We are now paying for the mistakes which were not properly appraised at the beginning of the journey. On the way from the Renaissance to our days we have enriched our experience, but we have lost the concept of a Supreme Complete Entity which used to restrain our passions and our irresponsibility." Source ...
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