Top Ten Best Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes
Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn was a Russian novelist, dramatist & historian who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970.The Top Ten
1 If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds..necessary only..separate..from..rest..& destroy them..the line dividing good&evil cuts through..heart of every human being..&who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?
2 Violence finds its only refuge in falsehood,falsehood its only support in violence.Any man who has once acclaimed violence as his method must inexorably choose falsehood as his principle.
3 Can a man who's warm understand one who's freezing?
4 Let us not forget that violence does not live alone and is not capable of living alone: it is necessarily interwoven with falsehood. Between them lies the most intimate, the deepest of natural bonds.
5 I am of course confident that I will fulfil my tasks as a writer in all circumstances—from my grave even more successfully & more irrefutably than in my lifetime.No one can bar the road to truth,& to advance its cause I am prepared to accept even death
6 The difference is that the Gospel asks all this to be achieved through love,through self-limitation,but socialism only uses coercion.This is 1 point.Untouched by the breath of God,unrestricted by human conscience,both capitalism & socialism are repulsive.
7 Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory.
8 But may it be that repeated lessons will finally teach us not to stop the writer’s pen during his lifetime? At no time has this ennobled our history.
9 I..had to prove that socialism,which to many western thinkers is a sort of kingdom of justice,was in fact full of coercion..bureaucratic greed..corruption&avarice,& consistent within itself that socialism cannot be implemented without the aid of coercion.
10 Of course God is endlessly multi-dimensional..every religion that exists on earth represents some..side of God.1 must not have..negative attitude to..religion but nonetheless..depth of understanding God&..depth of applying God's commandmentsis different..
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