Violence, less and less embarrassed by the limits imposed by centuries of lawfulness, is brazenly and victoriously striding across the whole world, unconcerned that its infertility has been demonstrated and proved many times in history.
—Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Socialism of any type leads to a total destruction of the human spirit and to a leveling of mankind into death.
—Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
A man should build a house with his own hands before he calls himself an engineer.
—Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes. It may even lie on the surface; but we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions — especially selfish ones.
—Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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.
—Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes. It may even lie on the surface; but we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotion—especially selfish ones.
—Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn