“A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.”— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, archive.orgTagged: War, tyranny
“Education doesn't make you smarter.”— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, archive.orgTagged: Education, Intelligence
“To stand up for truth is nothing. For truth, you must sit in jail.”— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, archive.orgTagged: Truth, Bravery, Prison
“It is in the nature of the human being to seek a justification for his actions.”— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, archive.orgTagged: justification
“Bless you prison, bless you for being in my life. For there, lying upon the rotting prison straw, I came to realize that the object of life is not prosperity as we are made to believe, but the maturity of the human soul.”— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, archive.orgTagged: Prison, Soul, Suffering
“The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie.”— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, archive.orgTagged: Lies, Individual, Courage
“Since then I have come to understand the truth of all the religions of the world: They struggle with the evil inside a human being (inside every human being). It is impossible to expel evil from the world in its entirety, but it is possible to constrict it within each person.”— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, archive.orgTagged: Evil, Religion
“Only those who decline to scramble up the career ladder are interesting as human beings. Nothing is more boring than a man with a career.”— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, archive.orgTagged: Career, Boring, Conformity
“If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy…”— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, archive.orgTagged: Evil, heart