Human nature is full of riddles; . . . one of those riddles is: how is it that people who have been… — 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… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Religion always remains higher than everyday life. In order to make the elevation towards religion easier for people, religion must be able… — 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
... 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
Voting for impersonal parties and their programmes is a false substitute for the only true way to elect people's representatives: voting by… — 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
[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
We have to condemn publicly the very idea that some people have the right to repress others... When we neither punish nor… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Literature that is not the breath of contemporary society, that dares not transmit the pains and fears of that society . .… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
It was wrong to be too pragmatic, to judge people solely by results; it was more humane to judge by intentions. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
People can live through hardship, but from hard feelings they perish. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
We have to condemn the very idea that some people have the right to repress others. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
It's true that private enterprise is extremely flexible, But its only good within very narrow limits. If private enterprise isn't held in… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Surely people should eventually cease to be surprised at anything? And yet they continue to be. — 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 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
You're sincere, but in order not to upset your views you avoid talking with people who think differently. You pick your thoughts… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Evil people always support each other; that is their chief strength. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
We should clearly understand that only the voluntary and conscientious acceptance by a people of its guilt can ensure the healing of… — 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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