Way Quotes by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

... the inexorable lesson of centuries: suffering must be borne; there is no way out.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I cannot suggest political ways out, that is the task of politicians, so it is simply that those who accuse me of…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The central government possesses no plan of finding the way out of this blind alley.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

To his and everybody else's way of thinking, you should build a house with your own hands before you start talking about…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The term "national idea" is an unclear one. One might think of it as a widely shared understanding among a people as…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Who has the skill to make a narrow, obstinate human being aware of others' far-off grief and joy, to make him understand…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

It is not our level of prosperity that makes for happiness but the kinship of heart to heart and the way we…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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

This is a grave danger: the stoppage of information between the parts of the planet. Contemporary science knows that such stoppage is…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Voting for impersonal parties and their programmes is a false substitute for the only true way to elect people's representatives: voting by…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

He had drawn many a thousand of these rations in prisons and camps, and though he'd never had an opportunity to weight…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

[He] understood the people in a new way...The people is not everyone who speaks our language, nor yet the elect marked by…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn