Famous Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes

  • And we, from the whole of our life experience there, have concluded that there is only one way to withstand violence: with firmness. – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

    And we, from the whole of our life experience there, have concluded that there is only one way to withstand violence: with firmness.– Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  • Freedom or prison–what’s the difference? A man must develop unwavering will power subject only to his reason. – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

    Freedom or prison–what’s the difference? A man must develop unwavering will power subject only to his reason.– Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  • If a person can build a fence around himself, he is bound to do it. – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

    If a person can build a fence around himself, he is bound to do it.– Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  • in order to do evil, must first believe that what they are doing is good, otherwise they can’t do it. – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

    in order to do evil, must first believe that what they are doing is good, otherwise they can’t do it.– Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  • The earlier, the more fun. Why put it off? It’s the atomic age! – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

    The earlier, the more fun. Why put it off? It’s the atomic age!– Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  • Only a small crack … but cracks make caves collapse. – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

    Only a small crack … but cracks make caves collapse.– Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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

    If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?– Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  • Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty. – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

    Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.– Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  • Oh, how hard it is to part with power! This one has to understand. – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

    Oh, how hard it is to part with power! This one has to understand.– Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  • All history is one continuous pestilence. There is no truth and there is no illusion. There is nowhere to appeal and nowhere to go. – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

    All history is one continuous pestilence. There is no truth and there is no illusion. There is nowhere to appeal and nowhere to go.– Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn