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> [“Evidently, evildoing also has a threshold magnitude. Yes, a human being hesitates and bobs back and forth between good and evil all his life. He slips, falls back, clambers up, repents, things begin to darken again. But just so long…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aleksandr-i-solzhenitsyn/evidently-evildoing-also-has-a-threshold-magnitude-yes-a-human-being/)

[Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aleksandr-i-solzhenitsyn/)

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## More by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

> [“Then came the time for the evening visit to the toilet, for which, in all likelihood, you had waited, all atremble, all day. How…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aleksandr-i-solzhenitsyn/then-came-the-time-for-the-evening-visit-to-the-toilet-for-which-in/)

[Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aleksandr-i-solzhenitsyn/)

> [“Was it only that explosion of atavism which is now evasively called "the cult of personality" that was so horrible? Or was it even…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aleksandr-i-solzhenitsyn/was-it-only-that-explosion-of-atavism-which-is-now-evasively-called/)

[Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aleksandr-i-solzhenitsyn/)

> [“Live not by lies!”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aleksandr-i-solzhenitsyn/live-not-by-lies/)

[Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aleksandr-i-solzhenitsyn/)

> [“Evidently, evildoing also has a threshold magnitude. Yes, a human being hesitates and bobs back and forth between good and evil all his life.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aleksandr-i-solzhenitsyn/evidently-evildoing-also-has-a-threshold-magnitude-yes-a-human-being/)

[Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aleksandr-i-solzhenitsyn/)

> [“The communist regime in the East could stand and grow due to the enthusiastic support from an enormous number of Western intellectuals who felt…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aleksandr-i-solzhenitsyn/the-communist-regime-in-the-east-could-stand-and-grow-due-to-the/)

[Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aleksandr-i-solzhenitsyn/)

> [“It is feasible and easy everywhere to undermine administrative power and, in fact, it has been drastically weakened in all Western countries. The defense…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aleksandr-i-solzhenitsyn/it-is-feasible-and-easy-everywhere-to-undermine-administrative-power/)

[Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aleksandr-i-solzhenitsyn/)

> [“A society which is based on the letter of the law and never reaches any higher is taking very scarce advantage of the high…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aleksandr-i-solzhenitsyn/a-society-which-is-based-on-the-letter-of-the-law-and-never-reaches/)

[Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aleksandr-i-solzhenitsyn/)

> [“Just as that puzzled savage who has picked up - a strange cast-up from the ocean? - something unearthed from the sands? - or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aleksandr-i-solzhenitsyn/just-as-that-puzzled-savage-who-has-picked-up-a-strange-cast-up-from/)

[Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aleksandr-i-solzhenitsyn/)

> [“Shukhov enjoyed it. He liked people pointing at him — see that man? He's nearly done his time — but he didn't let himself…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aleksandr-i-solzhenitsyn/shukhov-enjoyed-it-he-liked-people-pointing-at-him-see-that-man-he-s/)

[Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aleksandr-i-solzhenitsyn/)

> [“One day Dostoevsky threw out the enigmatic remark: "Beauty will save the world". What sort of a statement is that? For a long time…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aleksandr-i-solzhenitsyn/one-day-dostoevsky-threw-out-the-enigmatic-remark-beauty-will-save/)

[Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aleksandr-i-solzhenitsyn/)

> [“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aleksandr-i-solzhenitsyn/and-how-we-burned-in-the-camps-later-thinking-what-would-things-have/)

[Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aleksandr-i-solzhenitsyn/)

> [“But in the 17th century Russian Orthodoxy was gravely weakened by an internal schism. In the 18th, the country was shaken by Peter's forcibly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aleksandr-i-solzhenitsyn/but-in-the-17th-century-russian-orthodoxy-was-gravely-weakened-by-an/)

[Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aleksandr-i-solzhenitsyn/)

> [“The sole substitute for an experience we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aleksandr-i-solzhenitsyn/the-sole-substitute-for-an-experience-we-have-not-ourselves-lived/)

[Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aleksandr-i-solzhenitsyn/)

> [“The Rusanovs loved the People, their great People. They served the People and were ready to give their lives for the People. But as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aleksandr-i-solzhenitsyn/the-rusanovs-loved-the-people-their-great-people-they-served-the/)

[Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aleksandr-i-solzhenitsyn/)

> [“In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aleksandr-i-solzhenitsyn/in-keeping-silent-about-evil-in-burying-it-so-deep-within-us-that-no-2/)

[Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aleksandr-i-solzhenitsyn/)

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