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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Inspirational Quotes (338)

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A horrible human toll the Russian Orthodox Church suffered throughout almost the entire 20th century. The Church is just rising from its knees. Our young post-Soviet state is just learning to respect the Church as an independent institution.
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The timid civilized world has found nothing with which to oppose the onslaught of a sudden revival of barefaced barbarity, other than concessions and smiles.
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Let us drive away those cruel, greedy oppressors, governments, and the new ones, having just laid aside grenades and rifles, will be just and understanding. Far from it.
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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.
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The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
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This is a grave danger: the stoppage of information between the parts of the planet. Contemporary science knows that such stoppage is the way of entropy, of universal destruction.
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To taste the sea all one needs is one gulp.
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The most intense patriotism always flourishes in the rear.
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Mourn if you must, but don't stop fighting.
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When I returned to Russia in 1994, the Western world and its states were practically being worshipped. Admittedly, this was caused not so much by real knowledge or a conscious choice, but by the natural disgust with the Bolshevik regime and its anti-Western propaganda.
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Nothing worthy can be built on a neglect of higher meanings and on a relativistic view of concepts and culture as a whole. Indeed, something greater than a phenomenon confined to art can be discerned shimmering here beneath the surface - shimmering not with light but with an ominous crimson glow.
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Oh, how hard it is to part with power! This one has to understand.
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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 a piece of his own heart?
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The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. One word of truth outweighs the world.
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Who will dare say he has defined art?
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Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.
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One world, one mankind cannot exist in the face of six, four or even two scales of values: We shall be torn apart by this disparity of rhythm, this disparity of vibrations.
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It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
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There is eternal simplicity to a solution once it has been discovered!
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Which of us can control his feelings?
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A leader should not be a man who arbitrarily imported his own ideas but the essential focal point for a group of people who trusted one another and worked for a common aim.
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In military science there is a principle more important than Forward: it is that the task should be proportionate to the means.
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Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.
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The revolution is an amalgam of former Party functionaries, quasi- democrats, KGB officers, and black-market wheeler-dealers, who are standing in power now and have represented a dirty hybrid unseen in world history
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