Human beings Quotes by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I insist on believing that beauty elevates human beings.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

A human being is all hope and impatience.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

... human beings are better and lazier than their rules and instructions ...

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it prolongs one's well-being.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece…

— 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

Who has the skill to make a narrow, obstinate human being aware of others' far-off grief and joy, to make him understand…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

To reject this inhuman Communist ideology is simply to be a human being. Such a rejection is more than a political act.…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should direct them towards mutual…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

One can build the Empire State Building, discipline the Prussian army, make a state hierarchy mightier than God, yet fail to overcome…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good, or else that it's a…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good... Ideology - that is what…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn