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Man Quotes by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- Let us not forget that violence does not live alone and is not capable of living alone: it is necessarily interwoven with falsehood. Between them…
- He had drawn many a thousand of these rations in prisons and camps, and though he'd never had an opportunity to weight them on scales,…
- It is a brave man who is the first to sit down during a standing ovation.
- The task of the artist is to sense more keenly than others the harmony of the world, the beauty and the outrage of what man…
- Nothing is more boring than a man with a career.
- A leader should not be a man who arbitrarily imported his own ideas but the essential focal point for a group of people who trusted…
- After all, man is a complicated being, why should he be explainable by logic?
- ... a man can safely sacrifice a great deal as long as he clings to the essential.
- How quickly a zek (a prisoner) gets cheeky-or, putting it in literary language, how quickly a man's requirements grow.
- To preserve his life, should a man pay everything that gives it color, scent and excitement?
- A strong man never loses his head in defeat or despondency.
- A man used to riding in a car cannot understand a pedestrian.
- The simple act of an ordinary courageous man is not to take part, not to support lies! Let that come into the world and even…
- A whole week, a single campaign, a month, a week, even a day was far more than enough to cut a company or platoon to…
- You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's…
- The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
- How can you expect a man who's warm to understand one who's cold?
- A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
- Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul.
- Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.
- I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a…
- Religion always remains higher than everyday life. In order to make the elevation towards religion easier for people, religion must be able to alter its…
- Only those who decline to scramble up the career ladder are interesting as human beings. Nothing is more boring than a man with a career.
- Like a bicycle, like a wheel that, once rolling, is stable only so long as it keeps moving but falls when its momentum stops, so…
- Freedom or prison--what's the difference? A man must develop unwavering will power subject only to his reason.
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- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. — Aristotle
- Hope is the dream of a waking man. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle