Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes

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 no longer in your power - he's free again.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Power, Long, Everything

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.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Failure, Truth, Selfish

A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

War, State, Tyranny

Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Else, Century, Anywhere

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.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

God, Him, Small

The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Good, Heart, Evil

For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Living, Dead, While

A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Happy, Long, Nothing

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Truth, Everything, Add

How can you expect a man who's warm to understand one who's cold?
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Understand, Cold, Expect

It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Time, Human, Rights

Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Goal, Soul, Himself

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.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Off, Times, Behind

Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Experience, Living, Nation

In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Lie, Country, Become

Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Violence, Anyone, Choose

Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Living, Nation, Memory

If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Human, Forever, Remain

Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Travel, Memory, Countries

Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Everything, Words, Name

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.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Life, Society, Legal

Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Lie, Violence, Concealed

Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Lie, Violence, Once

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.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Great, Government, Country

For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Living, Dead, Dog

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Biography

Nationality: Russian

Type: Author

Born: December 11, 1918

Died: August 3, 2008

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