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.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNJustice 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.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNMan has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNHuman beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it prolongs one’s well-being.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNEverything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNIt would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNAnyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNFor us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNThe battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNLiterature becomes the living memory of a nation.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNViolence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNHow can you expect a man who’s warm to understand one who’s cold?
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNOwn only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNToday when we say the West we are already referring to the West and to Russia. We could use the word ‘modernity’ if we exclude Africa, and the Islamic world, and partially China.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNIf one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNA man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNThe name of ‘reform’ simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage.
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