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
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We particularly like people who value us highly.
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.
One cannot declare that only his faith is correct and all other faiths are not. God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion that exists on earth represents some face, some side of God. One must not have any negative attitude to any religion but nonetheless the depth of understanding God and the depth of applying God's commandments is different in different religions.
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.
To stand up for truth is nothing. For truth, you must sit in jail.
Yes, you live with your feet in the mud and there's no time to be thinking about how you got in or how you're going to get out.
It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under God's heaven.
As for Europe, its claims towards Russia are fairly transparently based on fears about energy, unjustified fears at that.