Human nature is full of riddles; . . . one of those riddles is: how is it that people who have been… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
... human beings are better and lazier than their rules and instructions ... — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
It was only when I lay there on the rotting prison straw that I sensed within myself the first stirrings of good.… — 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
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 Copy Share Image
To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good... Ideology - that is what… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
[He] understood the people in a new way...The people is not everyone who speaks our language, nor yet the elect marked by… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Human nature, if it changes at all, changes not much faster than the geological face of the earth. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Socialism of any type leads to a total destruction of the human spirit. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Human nature is full of riddles and contradictions; its very complexity engenders art-and by art I mean the search for something more… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
One can build the Empire State Building, discipline the Prussian army, make a state hierarchy mightier than God, yet fail to overcome… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If we live in a state of constant fear, can we remain human? — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
During my time in the camps, I had got to know the enemies of the human race quite well: they respect the… — 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
Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
To reject this inhuman Communist ideology is simply to be a human being. Such a rejection is more than a political act.… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either - but right through… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
You must understand, the leading Bolsheviks who took over Russia were not Russians. They hated Russians. They hated Christians. Driven by ethnic… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
... but it is human to be outraged by injustice, even to the point of courting destruction! — 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
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