Aleksander Solzhenitsyn Quotes

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. - Aleksander Solzhenitsyn

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. - Aleksander Solzhenitsyn

Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible. This power becomes available to you just as you can change your beliefs. - Aleksander Solzhenitsyn

Though it is clear that present-day Russia poses no threat to it, NATO is methodically and persistently building up its military machine - into the east of Europe and surrounding Russia from the south. - Aleksander Solzhenitsyn

This book is an agglomeration of lean-tos and annexes and there is no knowing how big the next addition will be, or where it will be put. At any point, I can call the book finished or unfinished. - Aleksander Solzhenitsyn

If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being? - Aleksander Solzhenitsyn

I'd rather have the United States be the world's policeman than the Soviet Union be the world's jailer. - Aleksander Solzhenitsyn

I was in a state of witless shock, as though flames had suddenly enwrapped and paralyzed me so that for a moment I had no mind, no memory. - Aleksander Solzhenitsyn

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. - Aleksander Solzhenitsyn

He had drawn many a thousand of these rations in prisons and camps, and though he'd never had an opportunity to weight them on scales, and although, being a man of timid nature, he knew no way of standing up for his rights, he, like every other prisoner, had discovered long ago that honest weight was never to be found in the bread-cutting. There was short weight in every ration. The only point was how short. So every day you took a look to soothe your soul - today, maybe, they haven't snitched any. - Aleksander Solzhenitsyn

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