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Them 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…
- In the camp, this meant committing my verse-many thousands of lines-to memory. To help me with this I improvised decimal counting beads and, in transit…
- Happiness doesn't depend on the actual number of blessings we manage to scratch from life, only our attitude towards 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,…
- Mistakes are a great educator when one is honest enough to admit them and willing to learn from them
- The intellectual is not defined by professional group and type of occupation. Nor are good upbringing and a good family enough in themselves to produce…
- The foundation stones of a great building are destined to groan and be pressed upon; it is not for them to crown the edifice.
- And keep as few things as possible, so that you don't have to fear for them. Give them up without a struggle-because otherwise the humiliation…
- Truth must be told-and things must change! If words are not about real things and do not cause things to happen, what is the good…
- 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…
- 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…
- At what point, then, should one resist? When one's belt is taken away? When one is ordered to face into a corner? When one crosses…
- 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…
- Work was like a stick. It had two ends. When you worked for the knowing you gave them quality; when you worked for a fool…
- Satiety depends not at all on how much we eat, but on how we eat. It's the same with happiness, the very same...happiness doesn't depend…
- It makes me happier, more secure, to think that I do not have to plan and manage everything for myself, that I am only a…
- 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!…
- Patriotism means unqualified and unwavering love for the nation, which implies not uncritical eagerness to serve, not support for unjust claims, but frank assessment of…
- You can have power over people as long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's…
- You can 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…
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- 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
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle
- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
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