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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn quotes

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

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Prayers are like those appeals of ours. Either they don't get through or they're returned with 'rejected' scrawled across 'em. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
A tub was brought in to melt snow for mortar. They heard somebody saying it was twelve o'clock already. "It's sure to be twelve," Shukhov announced. "The sun's over the top already." "If it is," the captain retorted, "it's one o'clock, not twelve." "How do you make that out?" Shukhov asked in surprise. "The old folk say the sun is highest at dinnertime." "Maybe it was in their day!" the captain snapped back. "Since then it's been decreed that the sun is highest at one o'clock." "Who... Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Only those who decline to scramble up the career ladder are interesting as human beings. Nothing is more boring than a man with a career. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn quote: "In our country the lie has become not just a moral category..."
In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn quote: "It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism..."
It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn quote: "If state, party and social policy will not be based on..."
If state, party and social policy will not be based on morality, then mankind has no future to speak of. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Many of you have already found out, and others will find out in the course of their lives, that truth eludes us if we do not concentrate our attention totally on it's pursuit. But even while it eludes us, the illusion of knowing it still lingers and leads to many misunderstandings. Also, truth seldom is pleasant; it is almost invariably bitter. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn quote: "There is no point asserting and reasserting what the heart..."
There is no point asserting and reasserting what the heart cannot believe. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The communist regime in the East could stand and grow due to the enthusiastic support from an enormous number of Western intellectuals who felt a kinship and refused to see communism's crimes. When they no longer could do so, they tried to justify them. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn quote: "Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is..."
Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn quote: "Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must..."
Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn quote: "The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the..."
The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn quote: "Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only..."
Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn quote: "Live not by lies!"
Live not by lies! Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
He ate his supper without bread. A double helping and bread--that was going too far. The bread would do for tomorrow. The belly is a demon. It doesn't remember how well you treated it yesterday; it'll cry out for more tomorrow. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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