Here again we witness the single outcome of a worldwide process, with East and West yielding the same results, and once again for the same reason: Men have forgotten God. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn More Quotes by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn More Quotes From Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn It is in the nature of the human being to seek a justification for his actions. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn salmon moon action But nothing is all black in nature. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn all-black black nature Mourn if you must, but don't stop fighting. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn mourning mourn fighting In military science there is a principle more important than "Forward": it is that the task should be proportionate to the means. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn important military mean I dedicate this to all those who did not live to tell it. And may they please forgive me for not having seen it all nor remembered it all, for not having divined all of it - from The Gulag Archipelago Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn forgive-me forgiving may Bless you, prison, for having been in my life! Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn bless prison ... but it is human to be outraged by injustice, even to the point of courting destruction! Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn injustice destruction humans Not all of me shall die. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn dies death Not death itself, but only the moral preparation for it, holds terrors. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn moral preparation death We will die, but art will remain. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn dies art Who has the skill to make a narrow, obstinate human being aware of others' far-off grief and joy, to make him understand dimensions and delusions he himself has never lived through? Propaganda, coercion, and scientific proofs are powerless. But happily, in our world there is a way. It is art, and it is literature. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn our-world grief art Even the most broad-minded of us can embrace only that part of truth into which our own snout has blundered. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn broads embrace truth No one can bar the road to truth, and to advance its cause I am prepared to accept even death. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn bars causes truth Nowhere on the planet, nowhere in history, was there a regime more vicious, more bloodthirsty, and at the same time more cunning than the Bolshevik, the self-styled Soviet regime. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn cold self war Communism will never be halted by negotiations or through the machinations of detente. It can only be halted by force from without or by disintegration from within. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn cold communism war Nothing is more boring than a man with a career. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn boring careers men 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 cancer faces war If there were no executioners, there would be no executions. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn execution would-be death As the old proverb says: "Well-fed horses don't rampage. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn rampage feds horse If one is a professional soldier, it is part of one's job to die sooner or later. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn sooner-or-later soldier jobs