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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes: "It's an universal law-- intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound education breeds humility."

It's an universal law-- intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound education breeds humility.



Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes: "You can resolve to live your life with integrity. Let your credo be this: Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me."

You can resolve to live your life with integrity. Let your credo be this: Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me.




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

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



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

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




Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes: "The generation now coming out of Western schools is unable to distinguish good from bad. Even those words are unacceptable. This results in impaired thinking ability."

The generation now coming out of Western schools is unable to distinguish good from bad. Even those words are unacceptable. This results in impaired thinking ability.



Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes: "To destroy a people, you must first sever their roots."

To destroy a people, you must first sever their roots.



Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes: "That which is called humanism, but what would be more correctly called irreligious anthropocentrism, cannot yield answers to the most essential questions of our life"

That which is called humanism, but what would be more correctly called irreligious anthropocentrism, cannot yield answers to the most essential questions of our life




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

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 Quotes: "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."

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.



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

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



Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes: "I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever."

I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever.



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

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




Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty."

Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.



Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes: "It's not the sea that drowns you-it's the puddle."

It's not the sea that drowns you-it's the puddle.



Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes: "To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good."

To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good.



Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes: "Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth."

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.



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

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



Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes: "The task of the artist is to sense more keenly than others the harmony of the world, the beauty and the outrage of what man has done to it, and poignantly to let people know."

The task of the artist is to sense more keenly than others the harmony of the world, the beauty and the outrage of what man has done to it, and poignantly to let people know.



Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes: "Here again we witness the single outcome of a worldwide process, with East and West yielding the same results, and once again for the same reason: Men have forgotten God."

Here again we witness the single outcome of a worldwide process, with East and West yielding the same results, and once again for the same reason: Men have forgotten God.



Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes: "Evil people always support each other; that is their chief strength."

Evil people always support each other; that is their chief strength.



Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes: "Communism will never be halted by negotiations or through the machinations of detente. It can only be halted by force from without or by disintegration from within."

Communism will never be halted by negotiations or through the machinations of detente. It can only be halted by force from without or by disintegration from within.



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

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



Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes: "... people don't know what they are striving for. They waste themselves in senseless thrashing around for the sake of a handful of goods and die without realizing their spiritual wealth."

... people don't know what they are striving for. They waste themselves in senseless thrashing around for the sake of a handful of goods and die without realizing their spiritual wealth.



Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes: "The timid civilized world has found nothing with which to oppose the onslaught of a sudden revival of barefaced barbarity, other than concessions and smiles."

The timid civilized world has found nothing with which to oppose the onslaught of a sudden revival of barefaced barbarity, other than concessions and smiles.



Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes: "The meaning of earthly existence lies not, as we have grown used to thinking, in prospering, but in the development of the soul..."

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 Quotes: "Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words…By means of art were are sometimes sent - dimly, briefly - revelations unattainable by reason."

Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words…By means of art were are sometimes sent - dimly, briefly - revelations unattainable by reason.



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."

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 Quotes: "During my time in the camps, I had got to know the enemies of the human race quite well: they respect the big fist and nothing else; the harder you slug them, the safer you will be."

During my time in the camps, I had got to know the enemies of the human race quite well: they respect the big fist and nothing else; the harder you slug them, the safer you will be.



Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes: "Let your memory be your travel bag."

Let your memory be your travel bag.



Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes: "The solemn pledge to abstain from telling the truth was called socialist realism."

The solemn pledge to abstain from telling the truth was called socialist realism.



Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes: "The belly is an ungrateful wretch, it never remembers past favors, it always wants more tomorrow."

The belly is an ungrateful wretch, it never remembers past favors, it always wants more tomorrow.



Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes: "Socialism of any type leads to a total destruction of the human spirit..."

Socialism of any type leads to a total destruction of the human spirit...



Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes: "The price of cowardice will only be evil. We shall reap courage and victory only when we dare to make sacrifices."

The price of cowardice will only be evil. We shall reap courage and victory only when we dare to make sacrifices.



Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes: "Morality is always higher than law and we cannot forget this ever."

Morality is always higher than law and we cannot forget this ever.



Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations."

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



Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes: "The less you speak, the more you will hear."

The less you speak, the more you will hear.



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

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



Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes: "A great disaster had befallen Russia: Men have forgotten God; that's why all this has happened."

A great disaster had befallen Russia: Men have forgotten God; that's why all this has happened.



Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes: "When we feel that we are not sufficiently respected, we should ask ourselves whether we are living as we should."

When we feel that we are not sufficiently respected, we should ask ourselves whether we are living as we should.



Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes: "Any man who has once acclaimed violence as his method must inexorably choose falsehood as his principle."

Any man who has once acclaimed violence as his method must inexorably choose falsehood as his principle.



Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes: "Violence does not and cannot flourish by itself; it is inevitably intertwined with lying."

Violence does not and cannot flourish by itself; it is inevitably intertwined with lying.



Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes: "A drop in the ocean has no fear of a hurricane."

A drop in the ocean has no fear of a hurricane.



Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes: "We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err because this is more comfortable."

We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err because this is more comfortable.



Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes: "We are so attached to the earth, and yet we are incapable of holding onto it."

We are so attached to the earth, and yet we are incapable of holding onto it.



Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes: "Should one point out that from ancient times decline in courage has been considered the beginning of the end?"

Should one point out that from ancient times decline in courage has been considered the beginning of the end?



Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes: "The next war... may well bury Western civilization forever."

The next war... may well bury Western civilization forever.



Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes: "Just as King Midas turned everything to gold, Stalin turned everything to mediocrity."

Just as King Midas turned everything to gold, Stalin turned everything to mediocrity.