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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn quotes

Russian Author, Writer December 11, 1918 – August 3, 2008

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Power is a poison well known for thousands of years. If only no one were ever to acquire material power over others! But to the human being who has faith in some force that holds dominion over all of us, and who is therefore conscious of his own limitations, power is not necessarily fatal. For those, however, who are unaware of any higher sphere, it is a deadly poison. For them there is no antidote. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn quote: "Beat a dog once and you only have to show him the whip."
Beat a dog once and you only have to show him the whip. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn quote: "Education doesn't make you smarter."
Education doesn't make you smarter. Aleksandr 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. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
In our country they do not permit any information to be X-rayed through and through, nor any discussion to encompass all the facets of a subject. All this is invariably suppressed at the very beginning, so no ray of light should fall on the naked body of truth. And then all this is piled up in one formless heap covering many years, where it languishes for whole decades, until all interest and all means of sorting out the rusty blocks from all this trash are lost. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn quote: "Literature becomes the living memory of a nation."
Literature becomes the living memory of a nation. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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 civic courage . . . . Such a decline in courage is particularly noticeable among the ruling and intellectual elite, causing an impression of a loss of courage by the entire society. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Shukhov ate his supper without bread--a double portion and bread on top of it would be too rich. So he'd save the bread. You get no thanks from your belly--it always forgets what you've just done for it and comes begging again the next day. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn quote: "Of course God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion..."
Of course God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion that exists on earth represents some face, some side of God. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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
Human rights' are a fine thing, but how can we make ourselves sure that our rights do not expand at the expense of the rights of others. A society with unlimited rights is incapable of standing to adversity. If we do not wish to be ruled by a coercive authority, then each of us must rein himself in...A stable society is achieved not by balancing opposing forces but by conscious self-limitation: by the principle that we are always duty-bound to defer to the sense of moral justice. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The meaning of earthly existence lies not, as we have grown used to thinking, in prospering but in the development of the soul. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn quote: "The sole substitute for an experience we have not ourselves..."
The sole substitute for an experience we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn quote: "My wish for you... is that your skeptic-eclectic brain be..."
My wish for you... is that your skeptic-eclectic brain be flooded with the light of truth. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn quote: "Freedom or prison--what's the difference? A man must develop..."
Freedom or prison--what's the difference? A man must develop unwavering will power subject only to his reason. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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