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 Copy Share Image
Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
The central government possesses no plan of finding the way out of this blind alley. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
... the inexorable lesson of centuries: suffering must be borne; there is no way out. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
I cannot suggest political ways out, that is the task of politicians, so it is simply that those who accuse me of… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
This is a grave danger: the stoppage of information between the parts of the planet. Contemporary science knows that such stoppage is… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It is not our level of prosperity that makes for happiness but the kinship of heart to heart and the way we… — 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
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 Copy Share Image
The term "national idea" is an unclear one. One might think of it as a widely shared understanding among a people as… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
[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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If you wanted to put the world to rights, who should you begin with: yourself or others? — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share
“...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
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
Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share
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
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
“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
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
“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
Call no day happy 'til it is done; call no man happy til he is dead. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share
Whenever the tissue of life is woven of legalistic relationships, this creates an atmosphere of spiritual mediocrity that paralyzes a person's noblest impulses. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share
The same old caveman feeling-greed, envy, violence, and mutual hate, which along the way assumed respectable pseudonyms like class struggle, racial struggle, mass struggle,… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share
![“[He] understood the people in a new way...The people is not everyone who speaks our language, nor yet the elect marked by the fiery stamp of genius. Not by birth, not by the work of one's hands, not by the wings of education is one elected into the people. But by one's inner self. Everyone forges…” quote by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/062/aleksandr-solzhenitsyn-671_birth_he-understood-the-people-in-a-new-way-th_897711.jpg)
