50 Quotes by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was a Russian writer and historian best known for his works that exposed the brutal reality of life in the Soviet Union. Solzhenitsyn was a vocal critic of the Soviet government, and his writings, such as "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" and "The Gulag Archipelago," revealed the horrors of the Stalinist regime's labor camps and political repression. Solzhenitsyn's work was often banned in the Soviet Union, but his courage and commitment to truth-telling earned him international recognition, including the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970. Solzhenitsyn's writings remain a powerful testament to the importance of free speech and the dangers of authoritarianism. (Bio)
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes
Evil people always support each other; that is their chief strength. (Quote Meaning)
Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty. (Meaning)
We didn't love freedom enough. (Quote Meaning)
In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State. (Meaning)
One drop of truth can outweigh an ocean of lies (Quote Meaning)
The less you speak, the more you will hear. (Meaning)
Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth. (Quote Meaning)
Education doesn't make you smarter. (Meaning)
Not all of me shall die. (Quote Meaning)
Let your memory be your travel bag. (Meaning)
The Universe has as many different centers as there are living beings in it. (Quote Meaning)
Nothing is more boring than a man with a career. (Meaning)
Work is what horses die of (Quote Meaning)
In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousand-fold in the future. (Meaning)
A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today. (Quote Meaning)
When you're cold, don't expect sympathy from someone who's warm. (Meaning)
For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones. (Quote Meaning)
Pride grows in the human heart like lard on a pig. (Meaning)
The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. (Quote Meaning)
Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free. (Meaning)
The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. (Quote Meaning)
Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing. (Meaning)
You can resolve to live your life with integrity. (Quote Meaning)
We always pay dearly for chasing after what is cheap. (Meaning)
Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. (Quote Meaning)
Our envy of others devours us most of all. (Meaning)
The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man. (Quote Meaning)
One word of truth outweighs the world. (Meaning)
If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being? (Quote Meaning)
The next war may well bury Western civilization forever. (Meaning)
Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press. (Quote Meaning)
Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence. (Meaning)
To destroy a people, you must first sever their roots. (Quote Meaning)
Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.
Evil people always support each other; that is their chief strength.
A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good.
Socialism of any type leads to a total destruction of the human spirit...
Morality is always higher than law and we cannot forget this ever.
The solemn pledge to abstain from telling the truth was called socialist realism.
Violence does not and cannot flourish by itself; it is inevitably intertwined with lying.
Surrender one hair, and you'll end up beardless.
We didn't love freedom enough.
One drop of truth can outweigh an ocean of lies
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes
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