Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
"Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence."
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
"Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice."
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
"In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State."
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
"You only have power over people so 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."
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
"Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag."
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
"For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion."
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
"The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature."
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
"Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press."
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
"For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion."
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
"Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which are so dear to you - you do not even suspect that the day has already dawned outside."
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
"It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations."
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
"Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle."
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
"The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all."
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
"The name of 'reform' simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage."
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
"Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it prolongs one's well-being."
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
"Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing."
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
"Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory."
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
"It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under God's heaven."
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
"It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed."
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
"For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones."
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
"Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation."
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
"When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness."
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
"Our government declared that it is conducting some kind of great reforms. In reality, no real reforms were begun and no one at any point has declared a coherent programme."
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
"Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle."
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
"First would be the literary side, then the spiritual and philosophical. The political side is required principally because of the necessity of the current Russian position."
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
"Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul."
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
"Today when we say the West we are already referring to the West and to Russia. We could use the word 'modernity' if we exclude Africa, and the Islamic world, and partially China."
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
"Of course God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion that exists on earth represents some face, some side of God."
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
"I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever."
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
"The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. "One word of truth outweighs the world."
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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