If one is a professional soldier, it is part of one's job to die sooner or later. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
If there were no executioners, there would be no executions. — 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
Truth must be told-and things must change! If words are not about real things and do not cause things to happen, what… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Some are bound to die young. By dying young a person stays young in people's memory. If he burns brightly before he… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Was it Gorky who had said, "If your children are no better than you are, you have fathered them in vain, indeed… — 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
If we don't know our own history, then we simply will have to endure all of the same mistakes, all of the… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
If I were called upon to identify briefly the principal trait of the entire 20th century... I would be unable to find… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
If you want to change the world, who do you begin with, yourself or others? I believe if we begin with ourselves… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
What would things been like [in Russia] if during periods of mass arrests people had not simply sat there, paling with terror… — 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
There also exists another alliance - at first glance a strange one, a surprising one - but if you think about it,… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Friends! Let us try to help if we are worth anything at all! — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
... We brush aside all scales not our own, as if they were follies or delusions. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
If we could all take a sober look at our history, then we would no longer see this nostalgic attitude to the… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Nowadays we don't think much of a man's love for an animal; we laugh at people who are attached to cats. But… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
If decade after decade the truth cannot be told, each person's mind begins to roam irretrievably. One's fellow countrymen become harder to… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
If we look far into the future, one can see a time in the 21st century when both Europe and the USA… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
If you ever get twenty-five years for nothing, if you find yourself wearing four number patches on your clothes, holding your hands… — 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
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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