Any fool can bomb a train, but just try sorting out the mess. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Communism will never be halted by negotiations or through the machinations of detente. It can only be halted by force from without… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Even if we are spared destruction by war, our lives will have to change if we want to save life from self-destruction. — 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
The next war... may well bury Western civilization forever. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
There is something predetermined in the mutual attraction between Germany and Russia. Otherwise, this attraction would not have survived two ghastly World… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Only a magician can fix a head on a body, but any fool can lop it off. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Nowhere on the planet, nowhere in history, was there a regime more vicious, more bloodthirsty, and at the same time more cunning… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Our Twentieth Century has proved to be more cruel than preceding centuries, and the first fifty years have not erased all its… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
The Communists have for decades loudly proclaimed their goal of destroying the bourgeois world, while the West merely smiled at what seemed… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
To reject this inhuman Communist ideology is simply to be a human being. Such a rejection is more than a political act.… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
To coexist with communism on the same planet is impossible. Either it will spread, cancer-like, to destroy mankind, or else mankind will… — 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
A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
You know the words from the Bible: 'Build not on sand, but on rock....' Tyrant leaders respect only firmness...and laugh at persons… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
A whole week, a single campaign, a month, a week, even a day was far more than enough to cut a company… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
The demands of internal growth are incomparably more important to us...than the need for any external expansion of our power. — 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
