I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNAnyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.
More 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.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN -
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 SOLZHENITSYN -
Today 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 SOLZHENITSYN -
Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN -
Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN -
When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN -
Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN -
How can you expect a man who’s warm to understand one who’s cold?
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN -
Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN -
If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN -
It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN -
The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN -
There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN -
A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN -
In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN