Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes

Work was like a stick. It had two ends. When you worked for the knowing you gave them quality; when you worked for a fool you simply gave him eyewash.

Work, he said, was a first-rate medicine for any illness.

The concept of maximum promotion of human rights to the expense of the majority of people in fact undermines the entire concept of the human community.

The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. "One word of truth outweighs the world.

You can resolve to live your life with integrity. Let your credo be this: Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me.

The meaning of earthly existence lies not, as we have grown used to thinking, in prospering but in the development of the soul.

Satiety depends not at all on how much we eat, but on how we eat. It's the same with happiness, the very same...happiness doesn't depend on how many external blessings we have snatched from life. It depends only on our attitude toward them. There's a saying about it in the Taoist ethic: 'Whoever is capable of contentment will always be satisfied.

It makes me happier, more secure, to think that I do not have to plan and manage everything for myself, that I am only a sword made sharp to smite the unclean forces, an enchanted sword to cleave and disperse them.

Grant, O Lord, that I may not break as I strike! Let me not fall from Thy hand!

Свободно можеш да се молиш,
но… да те чува само Бог

У Макбета слабы были оправдания - и загрызла его совесть. Да и Яго - ягнёнок. Десятком тр

Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties - but right through every human heart - and through all human hearts.

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

We are all human, and our senses are quicker to prompt us than our reason. Every man gives off a scent, and that scent tells you how to act before your head does.

If we live in a state of constant fear, can we remain human?

Someone that you have deprived of everything is no longer in your power. He is once again entirely free.

...you are strong only as long as you don't deprive people of everything. For a person you've taken everything from is no longer in your power. He's free all over again.

...it's only on a black day that you begin to have friends.

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

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

А об этом и молиться не надо! - ужаснулся Алёшка. - Что тебе воля? На воле твоя последняя вер�