Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes - Page 6

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• Nowhere on the planet, nowhere in history, was there a regime more vicious, more bloodthirsty, and at the same time more cunning than the Bolshevik, the self-styled Soviet regime.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  War, Self, Cold

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• You know the words from the Bible: 'Build not on sand, but on rock....' Tyrant leaders respect only firmness...and laugh at persons who give in to them.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  War, Rocks, Tyrants

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• ... any country that is not careful can be seized.

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  Country, Careful

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• One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to.

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  Love, People, Achievement

  "Cancer Ward". Book by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, 1968.

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• Your friend will argue with you.

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  Friendship, Arguing

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• When we feel that we are not sufficiently respected, we should ask ourselves whether we are living as we should.

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  Respect, Should, Feels

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• Satiety depends not at all on how much we eat, but on how we eat. It's the same with happiness, the very same...happiness doesn't depend on how many external blessings we have snatched from life. It depends only on our attitude toward them. There's a saying about it in the Taoist ethic: 'Whoever is capable of contentment will always be satisfied.

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  Attitude, Blessing, Contentment

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• And keep as few things as possible, so that you don't have to fear for them. Give them up without a struggle-because otherwise the humiliation will poison your heart. They will take them away from you in a fight, and trying to hold onto your property will only leave you with a bloodied mouth ... But by owning things and trembling about their fate aren't you forfeiting the rare opportunity of observing and understanding?

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  Struggle, Heart, Fighting

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• There also exists another alliance - at first glance a strange one, a surprising one - but if you think about it, in fact, one which is well grounded and easy to understand. This is the alliance between our Communist leaders and your capitalists. This alliance is not new. ... We observe continuous and steady support by the businessmen of the West of the Soviet Communist leaders.

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  Thinking, Communist Leaders, Support

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• It's not the sea that drowns you-it's the puddle.

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  Sea, Water, Puddles

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

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• With such global events looming over us like mountains, nay, like entire mountain ranges, it may seem incongruous and inappropriate to recall that the primary key to our being or non-being resides in each individual human heart, in the heart’s preference for specific good or evil. Yet this remains true even today, and it is, in fact, the most reliable key we have. The social theories that promised so much have demonstrated their bankruptcy, leaving us at a dead end.

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  Heart, Keys, Mountain Ranges

  "Have We Forgotten God?" by John W. Whitehead, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• 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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  Religious, Peace, Voice

  Letter to three students (October 1967) as translated in "Solzhenitsyn: A Documentary Record" edited by Leopold Labedz, "The Struggle Intensifies", 1970.

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• A storm breaks trees. It only bends grass.

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  Tree, Storm, Break

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1991). “Cancer Ward: A Novel”, p.528, Macmillan

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• For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.

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  Love, Country, Government

  "In the First Circle". Book by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, 1968.

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• Everyone is guilty of something or has something to conceal. All one has to do is look hard enough to find what it is.

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  Looks, Guilty, Enough

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1991). “Cancer Ward: A Novel”, p.234, Macmillan

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• Truth must be told-and things must change! If words are not about real things and do not cause things to happen, what is the good of them?

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  Truth, Real, Causes

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• I dare hope that all the peoples who have lived through communism will understand that communism is to blame for the bitter pages of their history.

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  Pages, Bitter, Blame

  Source: www.independent.co.uk

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

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  Gambling, Forever, Action

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

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• When things are too clear, they are no longer interesting.

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  Interesting, Clarity, Clear

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• If you ever get twenty-five years for nothing, if you find yourself wearing four number patches on your clothes, holding your hands permanently behind your back, submitting to searches morning and evening, working until you are utterly exhausted, dragged into the cooler whenever someone denounces you, trodden deeper and deeper into the ground-from the hole you're in, the fine words of the great humanists will sound like the chatter of the well-fed and free.

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  Morning, Years, Clothes

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• Even the most rational approach to ethics is defenseless if there isn't the will to do what is right.

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  Ethics And Morals, Morality, Moral Ethics

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• The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed by its rubble.

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  Trying, Communism, Building

  "How We Must Rebuild Russia". Komsomolskaya Pravda, September 18, 1990.

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• When one is already on the edge of the grave, why not resist?

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  Why Not, Prison, Graves

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• It makes me happier, more secure, to think that I do not have to plan and manage everything for myself, that I am only a sword made sharp to smite the unclean forces, an enchanted sword to cleave and disperse them. Grant, O Lord, that I may not break as I strike! Let me not fall from Thy hand!

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  Fall, Thinking, Hands

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• I leaf through the ancient philosophers and find my newest discoveries there.

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  Discovery, Philosopher, Ancient

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

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