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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Inspirational Quotes (338)

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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.
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There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.
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The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.
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We particularly like people who value us highly.
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To his and everybody else's way of thinking, you should build a house with your own hands before you start talking about being an engineer.
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We are so attached to the earth, and yet we are incapable of holding onto it.
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Not death itself, but only the moral preparation for it, holds terrors.
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It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.
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If there were no executioners, there would be no executions.
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People who are at ease with their consciences always look happy.
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We never know beforehand how new posts or new work will change us.
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But what can you say in a letter?
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Only the first swath cut by the scythe is difficult.
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Our government declared that it is conducting some kind of great reforms. In reality, no real reforms were begun and no one at any point has declared a coherent programme.
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The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.
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Anything too far out of tune with our attitude is lost, either in the ears themselves or somewhere beyond, but it is lost.
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When you're young, you haven't the experience, when you're old you haven't the strength.
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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.
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Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it prolongs one's well-being.
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It's true that private enterprise is extremely flexible, But its only good within very narrow limits. If private enterprise isn't held in an iron grip it gives birth to people who are no better than beasts, those stock-exchange people with greedy appetites beyond restraint.
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The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?
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Here again we witness the single outcome of a worldwide process, with East and West yielding the same results, and once again for the same reason: Men have forgotten God.
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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
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For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.
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