If you wanted to put the world to rights, who should you begin with: yourself or others? — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
When we feel that we are not sufficiently respected, we should ask ourselves whether we are living as we should. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
After all, man is a complicated being, why should he be explainable by logic? — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
In military science there is a principle more important than "Forward": it is that the task should be proportionate to the means. — 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
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
Why should I trust you? We haven't drunk from the same bowl of soup. — 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
One should not ascribe the evil deeds of individual leaders or political regimes to an innate fault of the Russian people and… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
The term "national idea" is an unclear one. One might think of it as a widely shared understanding among a people as… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
To his and everybody else's way of thinking, you should build a house with your own hands before you start talking about… — 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
