Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes

Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it prolongs one's well-being.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Spiritual, Important, Long

Our government declared that it is conducting some kind of great reforms. In reality, no real reforms were begun and no one at any point has declared a coherent programme.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Great, Government, Reality

Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Talent, Abundance, Sharing

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

First would be the literary side, then the spiritual and philosophical. The political side is required principally because of the necessity of the current Russian position.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Spiritual, Political, Side

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

Education, Last, Less

It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Design, Path, Difficult

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

Justice, Humanity, Whole

Of course God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion that exists on earth represents some face, some side of God.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Religion, God, Earth

Religion always remains higher than everyday life. In order to make the elevation towards religion easier for people, religion must be able to alter its forms in relation to the consciousness of modern man.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Life, Religion, Able

The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed by its rubble.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Down, Try, Reason

The name of 'reform' simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Process, Name, Simply

The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Everything, Making, Lies

The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Art, Experience, Through

There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Clear, Thinkers, Everywhere

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

Today, Word, Africa

We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Truth, Someone, Else

Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Freedom, Heart, Short

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Biography

Nationality: Russian

Type: Author

Born: December 11, 1918

Died: August 3, 2008

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