Human nature is full of riddles; . . . one of those riddles is: how is it that people who have been… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
The strength or weakness of a society depends more on the level of its spiritual life than on its level of industrialization.… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
European democracy was originally imbued with a sense of Christian responsibility and self-discipline, but these spiritual principles have been gradually losing their… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
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
There is eternal simplicity to a solution once it has been discovered! — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Violence, less and less embarrassed by the limits imposed by centuries of lawfulness, is brazenly and victoriously striding across the whole world,… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
This deliberately nurtured hatred then spreads to all that is alive, to life itself, to the world with its colors, sounds, and… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
The perception of the West as mostly a "knight of democracy" has been replaced with the disappointed belief that pragmatism, often cynical… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
If so far we have been unable to see clearly or to reflect the eternal lineaments of truth, is it not because… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
In our age, when technology is gaining control over life, when material well-being is considered the most important goal, when the influence… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
The one and only substitute for experience which we have not ourselves had is art, literature. We have been given a miraculous… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
I hope that no one present will suspect me of offering my personal criticism of the Western system to present socialism as… — 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
