I would rather have the United States as the world's policeman than the Soviet Union as the world's jailer. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn More Quotes by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn More Quotes From Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn [He] understood the people in a new way...The people is not everyone who speaks our language, nor yet the elect marked by the fiery stamp of genius. Not by birth, not by the work of one's hands, not by the wings of education is one elected into the people. But by one's inner self. Everyone forges his inner self year after year. One must try to temper, to cut, to polish one's soul so as to become a human being. And thereby become a tiny particle of one's own people. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn cutting self hands Ideology - that is what gives evildoing its long-sought justification and gives the evildoer the neccessary steadfastness and determination... Thanks to ideology, the twentieth century was fated to experience evildoing on a scale calculated in the millions. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn determination giving long I leaf through the ancient philosophers and find my newest discoveries there. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn philosopher ancient discovery One drop of truth can outweigh an ocean of lies Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn ocean lying But there are still people whose moral superiority defeats your own. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn defeat moral people Let us drive away those cruel, greedy oppressors, governments, and the new ones, having just laid aside grenades and rifles, will be just and understanding. Far from it. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn rifles government understanding Some are bound to die young. By dying young a person stays young in people's memory. If he burns brightly before he dies, his brightness shines for all time. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn shining memories people Beat a dog once and you only have to show him the whip. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn beats shows dog 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 islamic russia use If we live in a state of constant fear, can we remain human? Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn constant states humans To his and everybody else's way of thinking, you should build a house with your own hands before you start talking about being an engineer. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn engineering hands thinking It is a brave man who is the first to sit down during a standing ovation. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn ovation brave men ... some kind of clean, pure feeling does live within us, existing apart from all our convictions. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn spirit doe feelings In every life there is one particular event that is decisive for the entire person-for his fate, his convictions, his passions. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn fate passion events If... if... We didn't love freedom enough. And even more - we had no awareness of the real situation. We spent ourselves in one unrestrained outburst in 1917, and then we hurried to submit. We submitted with pleasure! ........... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn awareness gun real Which of us can control his feelings? Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn feelings Once the fight is on-strike quickly and often. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn strikes fighting The heart senses who is friend and who is no friend. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn no-friends friends heart Let all of us who shared the prison soup meet again in better times! Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn soup prison As the fathers live, so the children play. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn play father children
