The same old caveman feeling-greed, envy, violence, and mutual hate, which along the way assumed respectable pseudonyms like class struggle, racial struggle,… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
... mutual lack of understanding carries the threat of imminent and violent destruction. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
There is something predetermined in the mutual attraction between Germany and Russia. Otherwise, this attraction would not have survived two ghastly World… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Our Twentieth Century has proved to be more cruel than preceding centuries, and the first fifty years have not erased all its… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
The task must be to banish from mankind's thought the idea that anybody has the right to use force against righteousness, against… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
... direct [people] towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel… — 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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