“...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 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… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Human nature is full of riddles; . . . one of those riddles is: how is it that people who have been… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Woe to that nation whose literature is disturbed by the intervention of power. Because that is not just a violation against "freedom… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Woe to that nation whose literature is disturbed by the intervention of power. Because that is not just a violation against "freedom… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Freedom or prison--what's the difference? A man must develop unwavering will power subject only to his reason. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
The thoughts of a prisoner - they're not free either. They keep returning to the same things. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
If... if... We didn't love freedom enough. And even more - we had no awareness of the real situation. We spent ourselves… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are… — 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
