Lord, give me the strength to accomplish what You've given me to do and the faith to trust You that what I haven't been able to accomplish You've already assigned to someone else. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn More Quotes by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn More Quotes From Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn The one and only substitute for experience which we have not ourselves had is art, literature. We have been given a miraculous faculty: Despite the differences of language, customs and social structure we are able to communicate life experience from one whole nation to another, to communicate a difficult national experience many decades long which the second of the two has never experienced. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn differences two art The "October Revolution" is a myth generated by the winners, the Bolsheviks, and swallowed whole by progressive circles in the West. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn october-revolution circles west When I was in the gulag I would sometimes even write on stone walls. I used to write on scraps of paper, then I memorised the contents and destroyed the scraps. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wall paper writing The revolution is an amalgam of former Party functionaries, quasi- democrats, KGB officers, and black-market wheeler-dealers, who are standing in power now and have represented a dirty hybrid unseen in world history Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn kgb party dirty There are defendants whom the judges are afraid of. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn judging law Every human act can be disguised with a coating of gilt. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn behavior humans The foundation stones of a great building are destined to groan and be pressed upon; it is not for them to crown the edifice. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn crowns foundation stones I think the gap between rich and poor is an extremely dangerous phenomenon and needs the immediate attention of the state. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn attention needs thinking There also exists another alliance - at first glance a strange one, a surprising one - but if you think about it, in fact, one which is well grounded and easy to understand. This is the alliance between our Communist leaders and your capitalists. This alliance is not new. ... We observe continuous and steady support by the businessmen of the West of the Soviet Communist leaders. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn communist-leaders support thinking As for Europe, its claims towards Russia are fairly transparently based on fears about energy, unjustified fears at that. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn russia energy europe When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn honesty truth lying We are all human, and our senses are quicker to prompt us than our reason. Every man gives off a scent, and that scent tells you how to act before your head does. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn doe giving men He had drawn many a thousand of these rations in prisons and camps, and though he'd never had an opportunity to weight them on scales, and although, being a man of timid nature, he knew no way of standing up for his rights, he, like every other prisoner, had discovered long ago that honest weight was never to be found in the bread-cutting. There was short weight in every ration. The only point was how short. So every day you took a look to soothe your soul - today, maybe, they haven't snitched any. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn cutting opportunity men Like a bicycle, like a wheel that, once rolling, is stable only so long as it keeps moving but falls when its momentum stops, so the game between a man and woman, once begun, can exist only so long as it progresses. If the forward movement today is no more than it was yesterday, the game is over. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn men fall moving The next war... may well bury Western civilization forever. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn war peace civilization For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn russia dog people I am of course confident that I will fulfill my tasks as a writer in all circumstances - from my grave even more successfully and more irrefutably than in my lifetime. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn censorship tasks lifetime Woe to that nation whose literature is disturbed by the intervention of power. Because that is not just a violation against "freedom of print," it is the closing down of the heart of the nation, a slashing to pieces of its memory. The nation ceases to be mindful of itself, it is deprived of its spiritual unity, and despite a supposedly common language, compatriots suddenly cease to understand one another. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn spiritual heart memories Call no day happy 'til it is done; call no man happy til he is dead. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn done men If state, party and social policy will not be based on morality, then mankind has no future to speak of. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn morality party speak
