Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes

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

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

• 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

• 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

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

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

• Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

• Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

• Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience… from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

• Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

• It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

• 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.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

• It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes… we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions – especially selfish ones.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

• In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

• If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

• I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

• 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

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

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

• How can you expect a man who’s warm to understand one who’s cold?

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

• Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

• For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion.

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (51)

Birth:	11th December, 1918
Death:	3rd August, 2008
Nationality:	Russian
Profession:	Novelist, Soldier, Teacher

About

Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn Russian: Алекса́ндр Иса́евич Солжени́цын, pronounced ˈksandr, 11 December 1918 – 3 August 2008) was a Russian and Soviet novelist, dramatist, and historian. Through his often-suppressed writings, he helped to raise global awareness of the Gulag, the Soviet Union's forced labor camp system – particularly in The Gulag Archipelago and One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, two of his best-known works. Solzhenitsyn was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970. He was expelled from the Soviet Union in 1974, but returned to Russia in 1994 after the Soviet system had collapsed.

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