We never know beforehand how new posts or new work will change us. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
... people don't know what they are striving for. They waste themselves in senseless thrashing around for the sake of a handful… — 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
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
He who knows how to be content will be content with little. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
I cannot suggest political ways out, that is the task of politicians, so it is simply that those who accuse me of… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
This is a grave danger: the stoppage of information between the parts of the planet. Contemporary science knows that such stoppage is… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
You know the words from the Bible: 'Build not on sand, but on rock....' Tyrant leaders respect only firmness...and laugh at persons… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
The task of the artist is to sense more keenly than others the harmony of the world, the beauty and the outrage… — 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
