Alexander Solzhenitsyn Quote by Theodore Dalrymple

“Macbeth's self-justifications were feeble – and his conscience devoured him. Yes, even Iago was a little lamb, too. The imagination and spiritual strength of…

— Alexander Solschenizyn

Macbeth's self-justifications were feeble - and his conscience devoured him. Yes, even Iago was a little lamb too. The imagination and the spiritual strength…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Macbeth is contending with the realities of this world, Hamlet with those of the next.

— Jones Very

For me, what Macbeth is about is people who cannot face their fears and pain and instead of facing them and going beyond, they…

— Marion Cotillard

“I am becoming a tyrant, threatening in place of convincing. Unstable instead of steadying. I am suited to the shadows, to the art of…

— Holly Black

“Macbeth in fact. If it be done, ‘twere well it be done quickly. Just”

— David Calder

“Chekhov, knowing the weight of his own country’s history of serfdom, spoke of how Russians must squeeze the slave out of themselves, drop by…

— Adam Hochschild

The thing that I have a horror of is ideological theatre - Shakespeare never told us how to think.

— Peter Brook

“In the Gulag, it was not the case that people died like flies. Rather, flies died like people.”

— Martin Amis

“The insanity of our rulers also calls down punishments upon us which we have merited for a long time so that our princes become…

— Martin Luther

'Macbeth' is one of those books that demand all of your attention.

— Mannie Fresh

“The cities of Russia and Poland were burned, their inhabitants tortured and massacred, with the consequence that progress was retarded for centuries. Almost”

— T. Lothrop Stoddard