“Macbeth's self-justifications were feeble – and his conscience devoured him. Yes, even Iago was a little lamb, too. The imagination and spiritual strength of Shakespeare's evildoers stopped short at a dozen corpses. Ideology—that is what gives evildoing its long-sought justification… — Alexander Solschenizyn Copy Share Image
“Macbeth's self-justifications were feeble – and his conscience devoured him. Yes, even Iago was a little lamb, too. The imagination and spiritual strength of… — Alexander Solschenizyn Copy Share Image
“As they say in camp: I sell it to you for what I paid for it.” — Alexander Solschenizyn Copy Share Image
“No, how can one preserve one's life and at the same time arrive at the truth?” — Alexander Solschenizyn Copy Share Image
“Oh, "what an intelligent, farsighted humane administration from top to bottom," as Supreme Court Judge Leibowitz of New York State wrote in Life magazine, after having visited Gulag. "In serving out his term of punishment the prisoner retains a feeling of dignity." That is what he comprehended and saw. Oh, fortunate New York State, to have such a perspicacious jackass… — Alexander Solschenizyn Copy Share
“It has been known for centuries that Hunger . . . rules the world! (And all your Progressiv Doctrine is, incindentally, built on Hunger, on the thesis that hungry people will inevitable revolt against the well-fed.) Hunger rules every human being, unless he has himself consciously decided to die. Hunger, which forces an honest person to reach out and steal… — Alexander Solschenizyn Copy Share
“As the gratefully guilty old camp veteran D. S. L---v put it: If I am alive today, that means someone else was on the list for execution in my place that night; if I am alive today, it means that someone else suffocated in the lower hold in my place; if I am alive today, it means that I got… — Alexander Solschenizyn Copy Share
“In the course of my new work I had occasion to go roaming about the whole construction site and time to sit on the ceiling of the eighth floor of our building, in other words, as if on the roof. And from there we prisoners had a panoramic view of Moscow. ... But no matter how much of a greenhorn… — Alexander Solschenizyn Copy Share
“But in that grim world where everyone gnawed up whomever he could, where a human's life and conscience were bought for a ration of… — Alexander Solschenizyn Copy Share Image
“Why keep talking about all that? An that is what they usually say today, those who did not themselves suffer, who were themselves the… — Alexander Solschenizyn Copy Share Image
“But we don't pray for that, I pray that I may do the will of God here. Give us this day...” — Alexander Solschenizyn Copy Share Image
“The intellectual is not defined by professional pursuit and type of occupation. Nor are good upbringing and a good family enough in themselves to… — Alexander Solschenizyn Copy Share Image
