A great writer is, so to speak, a secret government in his country — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
For a country to have a great writer is to have another government. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
One should not ascribe the evil deeds of individual leaders or political regimes to an innate fault of the Russian people and… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
The term "national idea" is an unclear one. One might think of it as a widely shared understanding among a people as… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Vladimir Putin inherited a ransacked and bewildered country, with a poor and demoralized people. And he started to do what was possible… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
An opposition is necessary and desirable for the healthy development of any country. You can scarcely find anyone in opposition, except for… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Gorbachev's administration was amazingly politically naïve, inexperienced and irresponsible towards the country. It was not governance but a thoughtless renunciation of power.… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
I hope that no one present will suspect me of offering my personal criticism of the Western system to present socialism as… — 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 Image
“...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 Image
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 Image
If there were no executioners, there would be no executions. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
Call no day happy 'til it is done; call no man happy til he is dead. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
