Quotes Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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

Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is in...

Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably mus...

Even if we are spared destruction by war, our lives will hav...

First would be the literary side, then the spiritual and phi...

For a country to have a great writer is like having a second...

Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the...

I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian c...

I cannot suggest political ways out, that is the task of pol...

I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I wil...

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

It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we ...

It would have been difficult to design a path out of communi...

Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but...

Of course God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religi...

Our government declared that it is conducting some kind of g...

Religion always remains higher than everyday life. In order ...

The name of "reform" simply covers what is latently a proces...

The next war... may well bury Western civilization forever....

There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere....

Today when we say the West we are already referring to the W...

Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can onl...

We have arrived at an intellectual chaos....

Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intr...

You can have power over people as long as you don't take eve...