If you wanted to put the world to rights, who should you begin with: yourself or others? — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I… — 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
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
“The concept of maximum promotion of human rights to the expense of the majority of people in fact undermines the entire concept… — 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
What is the most precious thing in the world? I see now that it is the knowledge that you have no part… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Today when we say the West we are already referring to the West and to Russia. We could use the word 'modernity'… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
The revolution is an amalgam of former Party functionaries, quasi- democrats, KGB officers, and black-market wheeler-dealers, who are standing in power now… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
If you want to change the world, who do you begin with, yourself or others? I believe if we begin with ourselves… — 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
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
This deliberately nurtured hatred then spreads to all that is alive, to life itself, to the world with its colors, sounds, and… — 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
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
One world, one mankind cannot exist in the face of six, four or even two scales of values: We shall be torn… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
The task of the artist is to sense more keenly than others the harmony of the world, the beauty and the outrage… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
All classifications in this world lack sharp boundaries, and all transitions are gradual. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
The timid civilized world has found nothing with which to oppose the onslaught of a sudden revival of barefaced barbarity, other than… — 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
Such as it is, the press has become the greatest power within the Western World, more powerful than the legislature, the executive… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
We hear a constant clamor for rights, rights, always rights, but so very little about responsibility. And we have forgotten God. The… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
When I returned to Russia in 1994, the Western world and its states were practically being worshipped. Admittedly, this was caused not… — 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
The Gulag Archipelago, 'he informed an incredulous world that the blood-maddened Jewish terrorists had murdered sixty-six million victims in Russia from 1918… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
In our age, when technology is gaining control over life, when material well-being is considered the most important goal, when the influence… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
You must understand, the leading Bolsheviks who took over Russia were not Russians. They hated Russians. They hated Christians. Driven by ethnic… — 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
