Tag: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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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.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Of course God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion that exists on earth represents some face, some side of God.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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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
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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.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn