Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes About Responsibility

Quotes about: Responsibility

• We hear a constant clamor for rights, rights, always rights, but so very little about responsibility. And we have forgotten God. The need now is for selflessness, for a spirit of sacrifice, for a willingness to put aside personal gains for the salvation of the whole Western world.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Wisdom, Responsibility, Sacrifice

• European democracy was originally imbued with a sense of Christian responsibility and self-discipline, but these spiritual principles have been gradually losing their force. Spiritual independence is being pressured on all sides by the dictatorship of self-satisfied vulgarity, of the latest fads, and of group interests.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Christian, Spiritual, Responsibility

• In our age, when technology is gaining control over life, when material well-being is considered the most important goal, when the influence of religion has been weakened everywhere in the world, a special responsibility lies upon the writer.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Lying, Responsibility, Writing

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

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Inspirational, Motivational, Ignorance

  A World Split Apart, delivered 8 June 1978, Harvard University

• The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Lying, Responsibility, Humanity

• I will tell you something else: it is a major responsibility not only of portraiture but of all human communication for each of us to help everyone else discover the best that is in him.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Communication, Responsibility, Helping

  "The First Circle".

• I refuse to see literature as amusement, as a game. I think that you ought not to approach literature without a moral responsibility for every word you write.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Writing, Responsibility, Thinking

  "The Exile Returns" by David Remnick, www.newyorker.com. February 14, 1994.

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