Quote

... scientists have made no clear effort to become an important, independently active force of mankind. Whole congresses at a time, they back away from the suffering of others it is more comfortable to stay within the bounds of science.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Age: 89 †
Born: 1918
Born: December 11
Died: 2008
Died: January 1
Historian
Militant
Military Personnel
Novelist
Opinion Journalist
Playwright
Poet
Prosaist
Public Figure
School Teacher
Screenwriter
Writer
Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Whole
Clear
Scientist
Important
Suffering
Active
Made
Force
Congress
Time
Science
Comfortable
Away
Mankind
Congresses
Others
Stay
Independently
Become
Effort
Scientists
Back
Within
Bounds

More quotes by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Image
To coexist with communism on the same planet is impossible. Either it will spread, cancer-like, to destroy mankind, or else mankind will have to rid itself of communism (and even then face lengthy treatment for secondary tumors).
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Image
If I were called upon to identify briefly the principal trait of the entire 20th century... I would be unable to find anything more precise and pithy than to repeat once again: Men have forgotten God.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Image
Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Image
And the over-all fact that you are a frail vessel full of errors.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Image
How can you expect a man who's warm to understand one who's cold?
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Image
If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Image
... mutual lack of understanding carries the threat of imminent and violent destruction.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Image
A great writer is, so to speak, a secret government in his country
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Image
Every act of perception has an emotional coloring.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Image
The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Image
Some are bound to die young. By dying young a person stays young in people's memory. If he burns brightly before he dies, his brightness shines for all time.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Image
I have grown used to the fact that public repentance is the most unacceptable option for the modern politician.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Image
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.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Image
Who will dare say he has defined art?
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Image
If decade after decade the truth cannot be told, each person's mind begins to roam irretrievably. One's fellow countrymen become harder to understand than Martians.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Image
Not death itself, but only the moral preparation for it, holds terrors.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Image
The task must be to banish from mankind's thought the idea that anybody has the right to use force against righteousness, against justice, against mutual agreements.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Image
I have always had that inner drive, since my birth. And I have always devoted myself gladly to work - to work and to the struggle.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Image
We will die, but art will remain.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Image
Even the most broad-minded of us can embrace only that part of truth into which our own snout has blundered.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn