Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes
Voting for impersonal parties and their programmes is a false substitute for the only true way to elect people's representatives: voting by an actual person for an actual candidate.
My wish for you... is that your skeptic-eclectic brain be flooded with the light of truth.
In all probability an outburst of desperation in the midst of general submissiveness will always help.
Scientific research? Only when not at the cost of ethics-and first of all, those of the researchers themselves.
No one can bar the road to truth, and to advance its cause I am prepared to accept even death.
Even if we are spared destruction by war, our lives will have to change if we want to save life from self-destruction.
The foundation stones of a great building are destined to groan and be pressed upon; it is not for them to crown the edifice.
As for Europe, its claims towards Russia are fairly transparently based on fears about energy, unjustified fears at that.
The central government possesses no plan of finding the way out of this blind alley.
Generosity is a two-edged virtue for an artist - it nourishes his imagination but has a fatal effect on his routine.
In our village, folks say God crumbles up the old moon into stars.
A genius doesn't adjust his treatment of a theme to a tyrant's taste
The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.
If decade after decade the truth cannot be told, each person's mind begins to roam irretrievably. One's fellow countrymen become harder to understand than Martians.
Nowhere on the planet, nowhere in history, was there a regime more vicious, more bloodthirsty, and at the same time more cunning than the Bolshevik, the self-styled Soviet regime.
Whenever the tissue of life is woven of legalistic relationships, this creates an atmosphere of spiritual mediocrity that paralyzes a person's noblest impulses.
Nowadays we don't think much of a man's love for an animal; we laugh at people who are attached to cats. But if we stop loving animals, aren't we bound to stop loving humans too?
Each person has his special moment of life when he unfolded himself to the fullest, felt to the deepest, and expressed himself to the utmost, to himself and to others.
I have grown used to the fact that public repentance is the most unacceptable option for the modern politician.
Of course, my views developed in the course of time. But I have always believed in what I did and never acted against my conscience.
I think the gap between rich and poor is an extremely dangerous phenomenon and needs the immediate attention of the state.
Why can't you understand? The stars fall down now and then. The gaps have to be filled.
The task must be to banish from mankind's thought the idea that anybody has the right to use force against righteousness, against justice, against mutual agreements.
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.
I leaf through the ancient philosophers and find my newest discoveries there.
... the inexorable lesson of centuries: suffering must be borne; there is no way out.
Surely people should eventually cease to be surprised at anything? And yet they continue to be.
When Russia started to regain some of its strength as an economy and as a state, the West's reaction - perhaps a subconscious one, based on erstwhile fears - was panic.
