The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, not between classes, nor between… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
To reject this inhuman Communist ideology is simply to be a human being. Such a rejection is more than a political act.… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either - but right through… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“Without even knowing it ourselves, we were ransomed by the small change in copper that was left from the golden coins our… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
It was only when I lay there on the rotting prison straw that I sensed within myself the first stirrings of good.… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“So let the reader who expects this book to be a political exposé slam its covers shut right now. If only it… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“It was granted me to carry away from my prison years on my bent back, which nearly broke beneath its load, this… — 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
