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People Quotes by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- ... direct [people] towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each…
- To destroy a people, you must first sever their roots.
- Surely people should eventually cease to be surprised at anything? And yet they continue to be.
- What would things been like [in Russia] if during periods of mass arrests people had not simply sat there, paling with terror at every bang…
- It's true that private enterprise is extremely flexible, But its only good within very narrow limits. If private enterprise isn't held in an iron grip…
- 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…
- People who are at ease with their consciences always look happy.
- We particularly like people who value us highly.
- People can live through hardship, but from hard feelings they perish.
- It was wrong to be too pragmatic, to judge people solely by results; it was more humane to judge by intentions.
- Justness exists, even if few people exist who feel it.
- 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…
- You're sincere, but in order not to upset your views you avoid talking with people who think differently. You pick your thoughts from conversations with…
- ... people don't know what they are striving for. They waste themselves in senseless thrashing around for the sake of a handful of goods and…
- 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…
- Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.
- For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion.
- 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…
- 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…
- Freedom! To fill people's mailboxes, eyes, ears and brains with commercial rubbish against their will, television programs that are impossible to watch with a sense…
- 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…
- [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…
- If I were asked today to formulate as concisely as possible what was the main cause of the ruinous revolution that swallowed up some 60…
- 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!…
- For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion.
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- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I know how the American people care for that democratic principle. They want to see their vote respected. As we in Haiti… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle