We have been fortunate enough to live at a time when virtue, though it does not triumph, is nonetheless not always tormented… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
A fish does not campaign against fisheries-it only tries to slip through the mesh. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
The one who doesn't pull his weight is not asked to pull, while the one who does, pulls for two. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Let us not forget that violence does not live alone and is not capable of living alone: it is necessarily interwoven with… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
... some kind of clean, pure feeling does live within us, existing apart from all our convictions. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
We are all human, and our senses are quicker to prompt us than our reason. Every man gives off a scent, and… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Violence does not and cannot flourish by itself; it is inevitably intertwined with lying. — 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
