Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes - Page 5

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• The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either - but right through every human heart - and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. And even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Party, Heart, Humility

  "The Gulag Archipelago". Book by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, 1974.

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• Our envy of others devours us most of all.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Inspirational, Gossip, Envy

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• A great disaster had befallen Russia: Men have forgotten God; that's why all this has happened.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Men, Russia, Forgotten

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• I had grown up among engineers, and I could remember the engineers of the twenties very well indeed: their open, shining intellects, their free and gentle humor, their agility and breadth of thought, the ease with which they shifted from one engineering field to another, and, for that matter, from technology to social concerns and art. Then, too, they personified good manners and delicacy of taste; well-bred speech that flowed evenly and was free of uncultured words; one of them might play a musical instrument, another dabble in painting; and their faces always bore a spiritual imprint.

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  Spiritual, Art, Technology

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• Ideology - that is what gives evildoing its long-sought justification and gives the evildoer the neccessary steadfastness and determination... Thanks to ideology, the twentieth century was fated to experience evildoing on a scale calculated in the millions.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Determination, Long, Giving

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• The intellectual is not defined by professional group and type of occupation. Nor are good upbringing and a good family enough in themselves to produce an intellectual. An intellectual is a person whose interest in and preoccupation with the spiritual side of life are insistent and constant and not forced by external circumstances, even flying in the face of them. An intellectual is a person whose thought is nonimitative.

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  Spiritual, Flying, Intellectual

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• You took my freedom away a long time ago and you can't give it back because you haven't got it yourself.

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  Freedom, Long, Giving

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• Mourn if you must, but don't stop fighting.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Fighting, Mourning, Mourn

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• Only those who decline to scramble up the career ladder are interesting as human beings. Nothing is more boring than a man with a career.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Men, Careers, Interesting

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• One cannot declare that only his faith is correct and all other faiths are not. God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion that exists on earth represents some face, some side of God. One must not have any negative attitude to any religion but nonetheless the depth of understanding God and the depth of applying God's commandments is different in different religions.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Attitude, Understanding God, Depth

  Interview with Joseph Pearce, Sr., "St. Austin Review", Volume 2, No. 2, www.catholiceducation.org. February 2003.

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• I would rather have the United States as the world's policeman than the Soviet Union as the world's jailer.

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  War, United States, World

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• Beat a dog once and you only have to show him the whip.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Dog, Beats, Shows

  "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich". Book by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, 1962.

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• The one good thing about repeating your mistakes is that you know when to cringe

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Mistake, Good Things, Knows

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• Was it Gorky who had said, "If your children are no better than you are, you have fathered them in vain, indeed you have lived in vain".

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  Children, Parenting, Vain

  "Cancer Ward".

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• It was only when I lay there on the rotting prison straw that I sensed within myself the first stirrings of good. Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not between states nor between social classes nor between political parties, but right through every human heart, through all human hearts. And that is why I turn back to the years of my imprisonment and say, sometimes to the astonishment of those about me, bless you, prison, for having been a part of my life.

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  Party, Heart, Years

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• Truth seldom is pleasant; it is almost invariably bitter.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Bitter, Pleasant

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

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• I am deeply convinced that God is present both in the lives of every person and also in the lives of entire nations.

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  Persons, Nations, Convinced

  Source: www.orthodoxytoday.org

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• This deliberately nurtured hatred then spreads to all that is alive, to life itself, to the world with its colors, sounds, and shapes, to the human body. The embittered art of the twentieth century is perishing as a result of this ugly hate, for art is fruitless without love. In the East art has collapsed because it has been knocked down and trampled upon, but in the West the fall has been voluntary, a decline into a contrived and pretentious quest where the artist, instead of attempting to reveal the divine plan, tries to put himself in the place of God.

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  Art, Hate, Fall

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• Just as King Midas turned everything to gold, Stalin turned everything to mediocrity.

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  Kings, Gold, Mediocrity

  Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn (1972). “The First Circle”

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• Power is a poison well known for thousands of years. If only no one were ever to acquire material power over others! But to the human being who has faith in some force that holds dominion over all of us, and who is therefore conscious of his own limitations, power is not necessarily fatal. For those, however, who are unaware of any higher sphere, it is a deadly poison. For them there is no antidote.

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  Years, Have Faith, Dominion

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• If you wanted to put the world to rights, who should you begin with: yourself or others?

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  Rights, World, Should

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (2011). “First Circle”, p.435, Random House

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• Pride grows in the human heart like lard on a pig.

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  Heart, Pride, Pigs

  "Thinking About Alexander Solzhenitsyn" by Don Meyer, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 18, 2012.

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• My wish for you... is that your skeptic-eclectic brain be flooded with the light of truth.

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  Light, Brain, Wish

  Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn (1973). “The First Circle”

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• The "October Revolution" is a myth generated by the winners, the Bolsheviks, and swallowed whole by progressive circles in the West.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Circles, October Revolution, West

  Source: www.independent.co.uk

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• A hard life improves the vision.

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  Vision, Hard Life, Hardship

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1991). “Cancer Ward: A Novel”, p.574, Macmillan

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