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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Russian Author
Born: Dec 11, 1918
Died: Aug 3, 2008
Communism Living Man Memory People You
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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 Failure Selfish Truth Is Emotions Mistakes Difficult Too Our Easiest See Insight Seek Most Make Course Comfortable Because Where Us
For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Lion Communism People Dog Living Russia Dead Still West While Us Many
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
You Man People Free Long Power Everything Only Take He Longer Over Robbed Again Them Your Away
Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Psychic Else Press Superficiality More Reflected Than Disease Diseases Anywhere Anywhere Else Century
A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
War Tyranny State Only Excuse Domestic Serve
In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Lie Country Become State Our Moral Category Pillar Just
Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Lie Only Concealed Maintained Violence
It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under God's heaven. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
God Apprentice Above Small Gladly Supreme Force Him Artist Heaven Who Works Away
It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Time Rights Obligations Human Rights West Human Much Defend
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 Heart Memory Nation Press Intrusion Merely Force Woe Up Short Literature Cut Interference Sealing Whose
The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Everything Lies Only Concern Making Salvation Mankind
For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Lion Communism People Dog Living Russia Dead Still West Us Many
The name of 'reform' simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
National Heritage Simply Name Covers Reform Process Theft
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. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Justice Humanity Own Those Recognize Voice Clearly Also Personal Who Whole Conscience
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
Communism Try Crushed Building Down Rubble Striking Ourselves Must Instead Freeing Come Concrete Clock Stopped Being Crashing Reason Save
Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
You Travel Memory People Own Carry Only Bag Countries Know Always Your Languages
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
Life You Man Legal Will My Life Society Other Indeed Spent Scale All My Life Tell Worthy Objective Terrible Without Any Quite Either Regime Communist
The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Art Experience Sole Ourselves Through Substitute Literature Which Lived
Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Lying Must Principle Inexorably Method His Anyone Proclaimed Choose Who Violence
Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Words Everything Some Some Things Lead Name Beyond Us Realm Things
A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Man Be Happy Happy Long Nothing He Him Stop Chooses
There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Everywhere Clear Lot Thinkers
The next war... may well bury Western civilization forever. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
War Civilization Well Western Western Civilization Forever May Bury Next
Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Own Object Sharing Abundance Talent Does Always Conscious
We have arrived at an intellectual chaos. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Chaos Arrived Intellectual
Of course God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion that exists on earth represents some face, some side of God. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
God Religion Face Every Side Earth Some Course Exists Endlessly Represents Multi-Dimensional
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