Gulag Quote by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

“Three thousand six hundred and fifty-three days. The three extra days were for leap years.”

— Alexander Solzhenitsyn

“To outsmart you they thought up work squads—but not squads like the ones outside the camps, where everyone is paid his separate wage. Everything…

— Alexander Solzhenitsyn

“The corpses were hauled away on sledges or on carts, depending on the time of the year. Sometimes, for convenience, they used one box…

— Alexander Solzhenitsyn

“... I have no knowledge of the world so I read in peace.”

— Alexander Solzhenitsyn

“There is a law in the Archipelago that those who have been treated the most harshly and who have withstood the most bravely, who…

— Alexander Solzhenitsyn

“Thanks to ideology, the twentieth century was fated to experience evildoing on a scale calculated in the millions. This cannot be denied, nor passed…

— Alexander Solzhenitsyn

“You know, there was a time at the beginning of the 50's when this nuclear threat hung over the world, but the attitude of…

— Alexander Solzhenitsyn

“He ate his supper without bread. A double helping and bread--that was going too far. The bread would do for tomorrow. The belly is…

— Alexander Solzhenitsyn

“A great writer is, so to speak, a second government in his country. And for that reason no regime has ever loved great writers,…

— Alexander Solzhenitsyn

“We forget everything. What we remember is not what actually happened, not history, but merely the hackneyed dotted line they have chosen to drive…

— Alexander Solzhenitsyn

“You don't have to be very bright to carry a handbarrow. So the squad leader gave such work to people who'd been in positions…

— Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.

— Alexander Solzhenitsyn