Economy Quotes by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

13 Economy quotes by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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When you want to see how economic choices intersect with ethics, Solzhenitsyn’s reflections offer a rare, thoughtful angle. This compact collection highlights his belief that prosperity must be measured against humanity’s deeper values.

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Economic growth is not only unncessary, but ruinous.

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The timid civilized world has found nothing with which to oppose the onslaught of a sudden revival of barefaced barbarity, other than…

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Let us drive away those cruel, greedy oppressors, governments, and the new ones, having just laid aside grenades and rifles, will be…

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One world, one mankind cannot exist in the face of six, four or even two scales of values: We shall be torn…

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When Russia started to regain some of its strength as an economy and as a state, the West's reaction - perhaps a…

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The generation now coming out of Western schools is unable to distinguish good from bad. Even those words are unacceptable. This results…

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The price of cowardice will only be evil. We shall reap courage and victory only when we dare to make sacrifices.

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Modern society is hypnotized by socialism. It is prevented by socialism from seeing the mortal danger it is in. And one of…

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Our Twentieth Century has proved to be more cruel than preceding centuries, and the first fifty years have not erased all its…

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Society must cease to look upon 'progress' as something desirable. 'Eternal Progress' is a nonsensical myth. What must be implemented is not…

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We hear a constant clamor for rights, rights, always rights, but so very little about responsibility. And we have forgotten God. The…

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Violence, less and less embarrassed by the limits imposed by centuries of lawfulness, is brazenly and victoriously striding across the whole world,…

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The strength or weakness of a society depends more on the level of its spiritual life than on its level of industrialization.…

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Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press…

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Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.

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If there were no executioners, there would be no executions.

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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.

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It is almost always impossible to evaluate at the time events which you have already experienced, and to understand their meaning with the guidance…

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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…

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“It was granted me to carry away from my prison years on my bent back, which nearly broke beneath its load, this essential experience;…

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Call no day happy 'til it is done; call no man happy til he is dead.

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Whenever the tissue of life is woven of legalistic relationships, this creates an atmosphere of spiritual mediocrity that paralyzes a person's noblest impulses.

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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,…

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Surrender one hair, and you'll end up beardless.

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