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War Quotes by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- The demands of internal growth are incomparably more important to us...than the need for any external expansion of our power.
- Even if we are spared destruction by war, our lives will have to change if we want to save life from self-destruction.
- To coexist with communism on the same planet is impossible. Either it will spread, cancer-like, to destroy mankind, or else mankind will have to rid…
- Communism will never be halted by negotiations or through the machinations of detente. It can only be halted by force from without or by disintegration…
- Nowhere on the planet, nowhere in history, was there a regime more vicious, more bloodthirsty, and at the same time more cunning than the Bolshevik,…
- To reject this inhuman Communist ideology is simply to be a human being. Such a rejection is more than a political act. It is a…
- 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…
- Any fool can bomb a train, but just try sorting out the mess.
- It takes a fool to rush off to war!
- Only a magician can fix a head on a body, but any fool can lop it off.
- A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
- Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.
- Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.
- Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.
- The next war... may well bury Western civilization forever.
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