Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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 you simply gave him eyewash.
The end of an unclouded day. Almost a happy one. Just one of the 3,653 days of his sentence, from bell to bell. The extra three were for leap years.
One should not ascribe the evil deeds of individual leaders or political regimes to an innate fault of the Russian people and their country.
I have grown used to the fact that public repentance is the most unacceptable option for the modern politician.
I have always had that inner drive, since my birth. And I have always devoted myself gladly to work - to work and to the struggle.
A prisoner five years between the shafts never hurries. He knows that what comes next can only be worse.
The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. One word of truth outweighs the world.
If we look far into the future, one can see a time in the 21st century when both Europe and the USA will be in dire need of Russia as an ally.
But this became the first plan of his life to fail. God told him - apparently with the help of human hands - to depart from his ribcage.
I am deeply convinced that God is present both in the lives of every person and also in the lives of entire nations.
I dare hope that all the peoples who have lived through communism will understand that communism is to blame for the bitter pages of their history.
The foundation stones of a great building are destined to groan and be pressed upon; it is not for them to crown the edifice.
You don't have to be very bright to carry a handbarrow. So the squad leader gave such work to people who'd been in positions of authority.
Was it Gorky who said: If your children are no better than you are, you have fathered in vain, indeed you have lived in vain.
The "October Revolution" is a myth generated by the winners, the Bolsheviks, and swallowed whole by progressive circles in the West.
Should one point out that from ancient times decline in courage has been considered the beginning of the end?
You took my freedom away a long time ago and you can't give it back because you haven't got it yourself.
When we feel that we are not sufficiently respected, we should ask ourselves whether we are living as we should.
Finally, he gave up trying to quiet her and lit a cigarette, the last resort of a man who finds himself in an intolerably stupid position.
It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under God's heaven.
The price of cowardice will only be evil. We shall reap courage and victory only when we dare to make sacrifices.
A person who is not inwardly prepared for the use of violence against him is always weaker than the person committing the violence. There