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

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

Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn

The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed by its rubble.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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

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

For a country to have a great writer is like having another government. That's why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn