20th century Quote by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“...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

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

Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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

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

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“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

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

“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

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

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn