Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn quotes and sayings page 2 (deceased author born on Dec 11, 1918). Here's quote # 11 through 20 out of the 44 we have for him.
“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.”
“Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.”
“For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion.”
“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.”
“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.”
“It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.”
“Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul.”
“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.”
“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.”
“For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion.”
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