The central government possesses no plan of finding the way out of this blind alley. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
For a country to have a great writer is to have another government. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
The price of cowardice will only be evil. We shall reap courage and victory only when we dare to make sacrifices. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
I have grown used to the fact that public repentance is the most unacceptable option for the modern politician. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Any man who has once acclaimed violence as his method must inexorably choose falsehood as his principle. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
A great writer is, so to speak, a secret government in his country — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
One world, one mankind cannot exist in the face of six, four or even two scales of values: We shall be torn… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Our government declared that it is conducting some kind of great reforms. In reality, no real reforms were begun and no one… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
The generation now coming out of Western schools is unable to distinguish good from bad. Even those words are unacceptable. This results… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Let us drive away those cruel, greedy oppressors, governments, and the new ones, having just laid aside grenades and rifles, will be… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“At no time have governments been moralists. They never imprisoned people and executed them for having done something. They imprisoned and executed… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
I am a convinced and consistent critic of party-parliamentarism. I am for non-partisan elections of true people's representatives who are accountable to… — 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
Violence, less and less embarrassed by the limits imposed by centuries of lawfulness, is brazenly and victoriously striding across the whole world,… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Modern society is hypnotized by socialism. It is prevented by socialism from seeing the mortal danger it is in. And one of… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“Just as a star suddenly flares to a hundred times its previous brightness -- and then fades away, so, too, a human… — 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
To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good... Ideology - that is what… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“Andrei Yanuaryevich (one longs to blurt out, “Jaguaryevich”) Vyshinsky, availing himself of the most flexible dialectics (of a sort nowadays not permitted… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“So let the reader who expects this book to be a political exposé slam its covers shut right now. If only it… — 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
The timid civilized world has found nothing with which to oppose the onslaught of a sudden revival of barefaced barbarity, other than… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Gorbachev's administration was amazingly politically naïve, inexperienced and irresponsible towards the country. It was not governance but a thoughtless renunciation of power.… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
We hear a constant clamor for rights, rights, always rights, but so very little about responsibility. And we have forgotten God. 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
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