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
One can build the Empire State Building, discipline the Prussian army, make a state hierarchy mightier than God, yet fail to overcome… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
If we live in a state of constant fear, can we remain human? — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
I think the gap between rich and poor is an extremely dangerous phenomenon and needs the immediate attention of the state. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
When Russia started to regain some of its strength as an economy and as a state, the West's reaction - perhaps a… — 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
Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either - but right through… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
When I returned to Russia in 1994, the Western world and its states were practically being worshipped. Admittedly, this was caused not… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
I would rather have the United States as the world's policeman than the Soviet Union as the world's jailer. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, not between classes, nor between… — 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
