Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes
Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul.
We have to condemn the very idea that some people have the right to repress others.
Mistakes are a great educator when one is honest enough to admit them and willing to learn from them
Even the most rational approach to ethics is defenseless if there isn't the will to do what is right.
I would rather have the United States as the world's policeman than the Soviet Union as the world's jailer.
Sometimes I feel quite distinctly that what is inside me is not all of me. There is something else, sublime, quite indestructible, some tiny fragment of the Universal spirit.Don't you feel that?
If we don't know our own history, then we simply will have to endure all of the same mistakes, all of the same sacrifices, all of the same absurdities over again - times ten.
All classifications in this world lack sharp boundaries, and all transitions are gradual.
Anything too far out of tune with our attitude is lost, either in the ears themselves or somewhere beyond, but it is lost.
Every man always has handy a dozen glib little reasons why he is right not to sacrifice himself.
Lord, give me the strength to accomplish what You've given me to do and the faith to trust You that what I haven't been able to accomplish You've already assigned to someone else.
Someone that you have deprived of everything is no longer in your power. He is once again entirely free.
It is in the nature of the human being to seek a justification for his actions.
Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.
Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
One world, one mankind cannot exist in the face of six, four or even two scales of values: We shall be torn apart by this disparity of rhythm, this disparity of vibrations.
It is within the power of writers and artists to do much more: to defeat the lie!
I am deeply convinced that God is present both in the lives of every person and also in the lives of entire nations.
The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?
Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either - but right through every human heart...
Everyone is guilty of something or has something to conceal. All one has to do is look hard enough to find what it is.
You know the words from the Bible: 'Build not on sand, but on rock....' Tyrant leaders respect only firmness...and laugh at persons who give in to them.
The name of 'reform' simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage.
The Communists have for decades loudly proclaimed their goal of destroying the bourgeois world, while the West merely smiled at what seemed to be an extravagant joke.
A fish does not campaign against fisheries-it only tries to slip through the mesh.
You should rejoice that you're in prison. Here you have time to think about your soul.
A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today.
Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
If a person can build a fence around himself, he is bound to do it.
When you're young, you haven't the experience, when you're old you haven't the strength.
Some are bound to die young. By dying young a person stays young in people's memory. If he burns brightly before he dies, his brightness shines for all time.
Was it Gorky who had said, "If your children are no better than you are, you have fathered them in vain, indeed you have lived in vain".
The "October Revolution" is a myth generated by the winners, the Bolsheviks, and swallowed whole by progressive circles in the West.