It was only when I lay there on the rotting prison straw that I sensed within myself the first stirrings of good.… — 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
If state, party and social policy will not be based on morality, then mankind has no future to speak of. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
With such global events looming over us like mountains, nay, like entire mountain ranges, it may seem incongruous and inappropriate to recall… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
I had grown up among engineers, and I could remember the engineers of the twenties very well indeed: their open, shining intellects,… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
The one and only substitute for experience which we have not ourselves had is art, literature. We have been given a miraculous… — 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
