Western Quotes by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

8 Western quotes by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s perspective on the Western topic is presented in eight brief quotes. This small set offers a clear glimpse of his thoughtful commentary.

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The next war... may well bury Western civilization forever.

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I have always insisted on the need for local self-government for Russia, but I never opposed this model to Western democracy. On…

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The perception of the West as mostly a "knight of democracy" has been replaced with the disappointed belief that pragmatism, often cynical…

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When I returned to Russia in 1994, the Western world and its states were practically being worshipped. Admittedly, this was caused not…

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The generation now coming out of Western schools is unable to distinguish good from bad. Even those words are unacceptable. This results…

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We hear a constant clamor for rights, rights, always rights, but so very little about responsibility. And we have forgotten God. The…

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Such as it is, the press has become the greatest power within the Western World, more powerful than the legislature, the executive…

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I hope that no one present will suspect me of offering my personal criticism of the Western system to present socialism as…

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If you wanted to put the world to rights, who should you begin with: yourself or others?

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“...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…

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Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press…

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Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.

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If there were no executioners, there would be no executions.

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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.

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It is almost always impossible to evaluate at the time events which you have already experienced, and to understand their meaning with the guidance…

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Human nature is full of riddles; . . . one of those riddles is: how is it that people who have been crushed by…

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“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…

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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…

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“It was granted me to carry away from my prison years on my bent back, which nearly broke beneath its load, this essential experience;…

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Call no day happy 'til it is done; call no man happy til he is dead.

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Whenever the tissue of life is woven of legalistic relationships, this creates an atmosphere of spiritual mediocrity that paralyzes a person's noblest impulses.

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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,…

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Surrender one hair, and you'll end up beardless.

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