For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
I dare hope that all the peoples who have lived through communism will understand that communism is to blame for the bitter… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Communism will never be halted by negotiations or through the machinations of detente. It can only be halted by force from without… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
To coexist with communism on the same planet is impossible. Either it will spread, cancer-like, to destroy mankind, or else mankind will… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“No one, even as a joke, could call a member of the all-Union Communist Party a Neo-Hegelian, a Neo-Kantian, a Subjectivist, an… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“Should we wrap it all up and simply say that they arrested the innocent? But we omitted saying that the very concept… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“What the engineers had first seen in the October coup d'état was ruin. (And for three years there had been ruin and… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“But just take the jurists' side for a moment: why, in fact, should a trial be supposed to have two possible outcomes… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“In addition, of course, they would be taken to a bath and in the bath vestibule they would be ordered to leave… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“All the glorified technological achievements of Progress, including the conquest of outer space, do not redeem the Twentieth century's moral poverty which… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
If you wanted to put the world to rights, who should you begin with: yourself or others? — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share
“...you are strong only as long as you don't deprive people of everything . For a person you've taken everything from is no longer… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share
Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share
Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share
It is almost always impossible to evaluate at the time events which you have already experienced, and to understand their meaning with the guidance… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share
Human nature is full of riddles; . . . one of those riddles is: how is it that people who have been crushed by… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share
“It was astonishing that the pseudo wreckers, who knew perfectly well that they weren't wreckers, believed that military men and priests were being shaken… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share
When the whole discussion of "developing a national idea" hastily began in post-Soviet Russia, I tried to pour cold water on it with the… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share
“It was granted me to carry away from my prison years on my bent back, which nearly broke beneath its load, this essential experience;… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share
Call no day happy 'til it is done; call no man happy til he is dead. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share
Whenever the tissue of life is woven of legalistic relationships, this creates an atmosphere of spiritual mediocrity that paralyzes a person's noblest impulses. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share
The same old caveman feeling-greed, envy, violence, and mutual hate, which along the way assumed respectable pseudonyms like class struggle, racial struggle, mass struggle,… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share
