Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Violence does not and cannot flourish by itself; it is inevitably intertwined with lying. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle. — 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
Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
The same old caveman feeling-greed, envy, violence, and mutual hate, which along the way assumed respectable pseudonyms like class struggle, racial struggle,… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
The simple act of an ordinary courageous man is not to take part, not to support lies! Let that come into the… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Let us not forget that violence does not live alone and is not capable of living alone: it is necessarily interwoven with… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“Let us not forget that violence does not and cannot exist by itself; it is invariably intertwined with the lie. They are… — 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
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
