In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
To stand up for truth is nothing. For truth, you must sit in jail. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Even the most broad-minded of us can embrace only that part of truth into which our own snout has blundered. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
If decade after decade the truth cannot be told, each person's mind begins to roam irretrievably. One's fellow countrymen become harder to… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Truth must be told-and things must change! If words are not about real things and do not cause things to happen, what… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“The concept of maximum promotion of human rights to the expense of the majority of people in fact undermines the entire concept… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
No one can bar the road to truth, and to advance its cause I am prepared to accept even death. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“But I had begun to sense a truth inside myself: if in order to live it is necessary not to live, then… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
If so far we have been unable to see clearly or to reflect the eternal lineaments of truth, is it not because… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
You're sincere, but in order not to upset your views you avoid talking with people who think differently. You pick your thoughts… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“The great truth for Innokenty used to be that we are given only one life. Now, with the new feeling that had… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“We know that they are lying, they know that they are lying, they even know that we know they are lying, we… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“My life is over, a little early to be sure; but there's nothing to be done about it. I shall never return… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“Andrei Yanuaryevich (one longs to blurt out, “Jaguaryevich”) Vyshinsky, availing himself of the most flexible dialectics (of a sort nowadays not permitted… — 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
