Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn was a Russian novelist, historian, and short story writer. He was an outspoken critic of the Soviet Union and its totalitarianism and helped to raise global awareness of its Gulag forced labor camp system. He was allowed to publish only one work in the Soviet Union, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, in the periodical Novy Mir. After this he had to publish in the West, most notably Cancer Ward, August 1914, and The Gulag...
NationalityRussian
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth11 December 1918
CityKislovodsk, Russia
CountryRussian Federation
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn quotes about
A hard life improves the vision.
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
The name of 'reform' simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage.
To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good.
One world, one mankind cannot exist in the face of six, four or even two scales of values: We shall be torn apart by this disparity of rhythm, this disparity of vibrations.
I dare hope that all the peoples who have lived through communism will understand that communism is to blame for the bitter pages of their history.
A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.
As for Europe, its claims towards Russia are fairly transparently based on fears about energy, unjustified fears at that.
What is the most precious thing in the world? I see now that it is the knowledge that you have no part in injustice. Injustice is stronger than you, it always was and always will be, but let it not be done through you.
But what can you say in a letter?
If someone asked you, why not help him out?
You get no thanks from your belly-it always forgets what you've just done for it and comes begging again the next day.
The foundation stones of a great building are destined to groan and be pressed upon; it is not for them to crown the edifice.