Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes

• Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which are so dear to you – you do not even suspect that the day has already dawned outside.

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• Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.

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• Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.

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• A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.

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• A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.

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• You only have power over people so long as you don’t take everything away from them. But when you’ve robbed a man of everything, he’s no longer in your power – he’s free again.

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• Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.

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  Topics in Age

• Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice.

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  Topics in Justice

  Tags in Conscience

• You can have power over people as long as you don’t take everything away from them. But when you’ve robbed a man of everything, he’s no longer in your power.

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  Topics in Power

  Tags in Authority

• Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.

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  Topics in Truth

  Tags in Violence

• Even if we are spared destruction by war, our lives will have to change if we want to save life from self-destruction.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in War

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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