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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Inspirational Quotes (338)

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If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
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Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which are so dear to you - you do not even suspect that the day has already dawned outside.
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Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul.
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Any man who has once acclaimed violence as his method must inexorably choose falsehood as his principle.
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The one good thing about repeating your mistakes is that you know when to cringe
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In our village, folks say God crumbles up the old moon into stars.
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How can you expect a man who's warm to understand one who's cold?
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Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.
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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.
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Even the most rational approach to ethics is defenseless if there isn't the will to do what is right.
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Macbeth's self-justifications were feeble - and his conscience devoured him. Yes, even Iago was a little lamb too. The imagination and the spiritual strength of Shakespeare's evildoers stopped short at a dozen corpses. Because they had no ideology.
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The less you speak, the more you will hear.
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... but food eaten quickly isn't food.
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... any country that is not careful can be seized.
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When Russia started to regain some of its strength as an economy and as a state, the West's reaction - perhaps a subconscious one, based on erstwhile fears - was panic.
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When we feel that we are not sufficiently respected, we should ask ourselves whether we are living as we should.
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What would things been like [in Russia] if during periods of mass arrests people had not simply sat there, paling with terror at every bang on the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but understood they had nothing to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people?
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There can be no acceptable future without an honest analysis of the past.
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There is a law of time, a law of oblivion: glory to the dead life to the living.
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Patriotism means unqualified and unwavering love for the nation, which implies not uncritical eagerness to serve, not support for unjust claims, but frank assessment of its vices and sins, and penitence for them.
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Art thaws even the frozen, darkened soul, opening it to lofty spiritual experience.
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Our envy of others devours us most of all.
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Society must cease to look upon 'progress' as something desirable. 'Eternal Progress' is a nonsensical myth. What must be implemented is not a 'steadily expanding economy', but a zero growth economy, a stable economy. Economic growth is not only unnecessary but ruinous.
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I would rather have the United States as the world's policeman than the Soviet Union as the world's jailer.
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