Freedom Quotes by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The thoughts of a prisoner - they're not free either. They keep returning to the same things.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“...you are strong only as long as you don't deprive people of everything . For a person you've taken everything from is…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

You took my freedom away a long time ago and you can't give it back because you haven't got it yourself.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Freedom or prison--what's the difference? A man must develop unwavering will power subject only to his reason.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

If... if... We didn't love freedom enough. And even more - we had no awareness of the real situation. We spent ourselves…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Woe to that nation whose literature is disturbed by the intervention of power. Because that is not just a violation against "freedom…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Human nature is full of riddles; . . . one of those riddles is: how is it that people who have been…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Woe to that nation whose literature is disturbed by the intervention of power. Because that is not just a violation against "freedom…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“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

“What the engineers had first seen in the October coup d'état was ruin. (And for three years there had been ruin and…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“They dream of the happiness of stretching out one's legs and of the relief one feels after going to the toilet. In…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn