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World Quotes by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- If you want to change the world, who do you begin with, yourself or others? I believe if we begin with ourselves and do the…
- One word of truth outweighs the whole world.
- You must understand, the leading Bolsheviks who took over Russia were not Russians. They hated Russians. They hated Christians. Driven by ethnic hatred they tortured…
- Such as it is, the press has become the greatest power within the Western World, more powerful than the legislature, the executive and judiciary. One…
- This deliberately nurtured hatred then spreads to all that is alive, to life itself, to the world with its colors, sounds, and shapes, to the…
- If you wanted to put the world to rights, who should you begin with: yourself or others?
- The revolution is an amalgam of former Party functionaries, quasi- democrats, KGB officers, and black-market wheeler-dealers, who are standing in power now and have represented…
- 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…
- Who has the skill to make a narrow, obstinate human being aware of others' far-off grief and joy, to make him understand dimensions and delusions…
- All classifications in this world lack sharp boundaries, and all transitions are gradual.
- The same old caveman feeling-greed, envy, violence, and mutual hate, which along the way assumed respectable pseudonyms like class struggle, racial struggle, mass struggle, labor-union…
- 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…
- In our age, when technology is gaining control over life, when material well-being is considered the most important goal, when the influence of religion has…
- The Gulag Archipelago, 'he informed an incredulous world that the blood-maddened Jewish terrorists had murdered sixty-six million victims in Russia from 1918 to 1957! Solzhenitsyn…
- Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul.
- I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education…
- Today when we say the West we are already referring to the West and to Russia. We could use the word 'modernity' if we exclude…
- A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today. The Western world has lost its…
- The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. "One word of truth outweighs the world.
- You can resolve to live your life with integrity. Let your credo be this: Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph.…
- What is an optimist? The man who says, "It's worse everywhere else. We're better off than the rest of the world. We've been lucky." He…
- It is not our level of prosperity that makes for happiness but the kinship of heart to heart and the way we look at the…
- What is the most precious thing in the world? I see now that it is the knowledge that you have no part in injustice. Injustice…
More World Quotes
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- The Third World is not a reality but an ideology. — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — 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
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm… — Giorgio Armani
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is… — Richard Bach