Today when we say the West we are already referring to the West and to Russia. We could use the word 'modernity' if we exclude Africa, and the Islamic world, and partially China.
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Africa, Could, Islamic World, Islamic
Our government declared that it is conducting some kind of great reforms. In reality, no real reforms were begun and no one at any point has declared a coherent programme.
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Kind, Some, Begun, Coherent
I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
My Life, Other, Communist, Worthy
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.
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Watches, Dawned, Which, Curtains
Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it prolongs one's well-being.
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Well-Being, Long, Many, Yield
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.
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Memory, Nation, Cut, Intrusion
Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Principle, Method, Forced, Inevitably
The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed by its rubble.
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Reason, Concrete, Stopped, Striking
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.
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Power, Over, Away, Robbed
First would be the literary side, then the spiritual and philosophical. The political side is required principally because of the necessity of the current Russian position.
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Side, Russian, Literary, Principally
The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Evil, Good And Evil, Through, Between
A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Happy, Nothing, Stop, Chooses
In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Lie, Country, State, Pillar
Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Principle, His, Method, Inexorably
Of course God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion that exists on earth represents some face, some side of God.
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Some, Side, Endlessly, Multi-Dimensional
Religion always remains higher than everyday life. In order to make the elevation towards religion easier for people, religion must be able to alter its forms in relation to the consciousness of modern man.
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Always, Elevation, Forms
Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Lie, Only, Concealed, Maintained
For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Country, Having, Minor, Great Writer
It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under God's heaven.
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Small, Away, Works, Gladly
Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
More, Disease, Diseases, Superficiality
Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Memory, Generation, Living, Incontrovertible
When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Truth, Someone, Discovered, Attractiveness
It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Rights, West, Defend, Human Rights
Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Talent, Always, Does, Object
I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever.
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Education, Belong, Russian, Affectation
Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul.
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Processes, Himself, Set, Loses
For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion.
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Living, Russia, Still, Lion
For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion.
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Living, Russia, Still, Lion
The next war... may well bury Western civilization forever.
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Next, May, Bury, Western
The name of 'reform' simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage.
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Process, Name, Reform, Covers
It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Path, Been, Would, Followed
The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Mankind, Salvation, Making, Concern
If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Human Being, Being, Remain, Cautious
We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Chaos, Arrived, Intellectual
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
Voice, Own, Conscience, Humanity
There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Clear, Thinkers, Lot, Everywhere
It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... 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
Failure, Emotions, Difficult, Comfortable
A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
War, Tyranny, Domestic, Excuse
Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Name, Some, Things, Realm
The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Through, Sole, Which, Substitute
Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Travel, Memory, Always, Carry
Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Memory, Living, Nation, Literature
How can you expect a man who's warm to understand one who's cold?
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Warm, How, Expect, Cold
Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Truth, You, Add, Everything
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