29 Quotations by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
- 1. A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
- 2. Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which ...
- 3. Do not pursue what is illusory - property and position: all that is gained at the expense of your ne ...
- 4. Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
- 5. For a country to have a great writer is like having another government. That's why no regime has eve ...
- 6. For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion.
- 7. Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century, and more than anywhe ...
- 8. I am, of course, confident that I will fulfill my tasks as a writer in all circumstances -- from my ...
- 9. I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any ob ...
- 10. If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
- 11. If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere committing evil deeds, and i ...
- 12. In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.
- 13. It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes. It may even lie on the su ...
- 14. It is not the level of prosperity that makes for happiness but the kinship of heart to heart and the ...
- 15. It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
- 16. Literature that is not the breath of contemporary society, that dares not transmit the pains and fea ...
- 17. Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
- 18. One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-pla ...
- 19. Our envy of others devours us most of all.
- 20. Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be ...
Alexander Solzhenitsyn Quotes by Power Quotations
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