The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man. -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Good
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. -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Government
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. -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Government
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 Power
Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag. -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Travel
I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either. -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Society
When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness. -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Truth
I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either. -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Legal
It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones. -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Truth
Religion always remains higher than everyday life. In order to make the elevation towards religion easier for people, religion must be able to alter its forms in relation to the consciousness of modern man. -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Religion
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 Education
It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones. -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Failure
Of course God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion that exists on earth represents some face, some side of God. -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Religion
Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory. -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Freedom
