A man used to riding in a car cannot understand a pedestrian. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
... a man can safely sacrifice a great deal as long as he clings to the essential. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
To preserve his life, should a man pay everything that gives it color, scent and excitement? — 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
After all, man is a complicated being, why should he be explainable by logic? — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
It is a brave man who is the first to sit down during a standing ovation. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
A strong man never loses his head in defeat or despondency. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Here again we witness the single outcome of a worldwide process, with East and West yielding the same results, and once again… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Every man always has handy a dozen glib little reasons why he is right not to sacrifice himself. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Freedom or prison--what's the difference? A man must develop unwavering will power subject only to his reason. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
How quickly a zek (a prisoner) gets cheeky-or, putting it in literary language, how quickly a man's requirements grow. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
A leader should not be a man who arbitrarily imported his own ideas but the essential focal point for a group of… — 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
It is not our level of prosperity that makes for happiness but the kinship of heart to heart and the way we… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Like a bicycle, like a wheel that, once rolling, is stable only so long as it keeps moving but falls when its… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
He had drawn many a thousand of these rations in prisons and camps, and though he'd never had an opportunity to weight… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Let us not forget that violence does not live alone and is not capable of living alone: it is necessarily interwoven with… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
A whole week, a single campaign, a month, a week, even a day was far more than enough to cut a company… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
...skepticism can never provide firm ground under a man's feet. And perhaps, after all, we need firm ground. — 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
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
We are all human, and our senses are quicker to prompt us than our reason. Every man gives off a scent, and… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
The simple act of an ordinary courageous man is not to take part, not to support lies! Let that come into the… — 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
