Quote: For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion. [Aleksander Solzhenitsyn]
Quote: A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him. [Aleksander Solzhenitsyn]
Quote: Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press. [Aleksander Solzhenitsyn]
Quote: I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either. [Aleksander Solzhenitsyn]
Quote: In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State. [Aleksander Solzhenitsyn]
Quote: Literature that is not the breath of contemporary society, that dares not transmit the pains and fears of that society, that does not warn in time against threatening moral and social dangers -- such literature does not deserve the name of literature; it is only a faade. Such literature loses the confidence of its own people, and its published works are used as wastepaper instead of being read. [Aleksander Solzhenitsyn]
Quote: Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth. [Aleksander Solzhenitsyn]
Quote: When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness. [Aleksander Solzhenitsyn]
Quote: It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations. [Aleksander Solzhenitsyn]
Quote: Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing. [Aleksander Solzhenitsyn]
Quote: Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which are so dear to you -- you do not even suspect that the day has already dawned outside. [Aleksander Solzhenitsyn]
Quote: The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all. [Aleksander Solzhenitsyn]
Quote: Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words. [Aleksander Solzhenitsyn]
Quote: One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to. [Aleksander Solzhenitsyn]
Quote: Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence. Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle. [Aleksander Solzhenitsyn]
Quote: The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the falsehood. One word of truth outweighs the world. [Aleksander Solzhenitsyn]
Quote: A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny. [Aleksander Solzhenitsyn]
Quote: Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle. [Aleksander Solzhenitsyn]
Quote: Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle. [Aleksander Solzhenitsyn]
Quote: First would be the literary side, then the spiritual and philosophical. The political side is required principally because of the necessity of the current Russian position. [Aleksander Solzhenitsyn]
Quote: For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones. [Aleksander Solzhenitsyn]
Quote: Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press. [Aleksander Solzhenitsyn]
Quote: 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 there, and it will last forever. [Aleksander Solzhenitsyn]
Quote: It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones. [Aleksander Solzhenitsyn]
Quote: It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed. [Aleksander Solzhenitsyn]