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Own Quotes by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own…
- To his and everybody else's way of thinking, you should build a house with your own hands before you start talking about being an engineer.
- ... We brush aside all scales not our own, as if they were follies or delusions.
- 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…
- Submissiveness to fate, the total abdication of your own will in the shaping of your life, the recognition that it was impossible to guess the…
- Even the most broad-minded of us can embrace only that part of truth into which our own snout has blundered.
- Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.
- Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
- Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience…
- If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate…
- Literature cannot develop between the categories "permitted"—"not permitted"—"this you can and that you can't." Literature that is not the air of its contemporary society, that…
- Power is a poison well known for thousands of years. If only no one were ever to acquire material power over others! But to the…
- [He] understood the people in a new way...The people is not everyone who speaks our language, nor yet the elect marked by the fiery stamp…
- Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag. Use your memory!…
- To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good... Ideology - that is what gives devildoing its…
More Own Quotes
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — 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
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because… — Aristotle
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own. — Dido Armstrong
- We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity. — Karen Armstrong
- And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that… — Isaac Asimov