The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart? Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn More Quotes by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn More Quotes From Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn It is almost always impossible to evaluate at the time events which you have already experienced, and to understand their meaning with the guidance of their effects. All the more unpredictable and surprising to us will be the course of future events. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn events guidance impossible One can build the Empire State Building, discipline the Prussian army, make a state hierarchy mightier than God, yet fail to overcome the unaccountable superiority of certain human beings. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn discipline greatness army One word of truth outweighs the whole world. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn ethics honesty world Generosity is a two-edged virtue for an artist - it nourishes his imagination but has a fatal effect on his routine. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn generosity artist two I cannot suggest political ways out, that is the task of politicians, so it is simply that those who accuse me of this do not know how to read. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn political tasks way A whole week, a single campaign, a month, a week, even a day was far more than enough to cut a company or platoon to ribbons or cripple a man for life: it needed only a quarter of an hour. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn cutting men war Any fool can bomb a train, but just try sorting out the mess. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn sorting-out trying war Even if we are spared destruction by war, our lives will have to change if we want to save life from self-destruction. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn self war peace It takes a fool to rush off to war! Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn fool war The one who pulls is the one they urge on. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn willingness urges Only a magician can fix a head on a body, but any fool can lop it off. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn fool body war If you live in a graveyard, you can't weep for everyone. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn graveyard ifs Macbeth's self-justifications were feeble - and his conscience devoured him. Yes, even Iago was a little lamb too. The imagination and the spiritual strength of Shakespeare's evildoers stopped short at a dozen corpses. Because they had no ideology. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn imagination self spiritual There is no point asserting and reasserting what the heart cannot believe. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn no-point heart believe 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 building communism trying We didn't love freedom enough. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn love-freedom enough In our country they do not permit any information to be X-rayed through and through, nor any discussion to encompass all the facets of a subject. All this is invariably suppressed at the very beginning, so no ray of light should fall on the naked body of truth. And then all this is piled up in one formless heap covering many years, where it languishes for whole decades, until all interest and all means of sorting out the rusty blocks from all this trash are lost. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn block country fall Literature that is not the breath of contemporary society, that dares not transmit the pains and fears of that society . . . loses the confidence of its own people, and its published works are used as wastepaper instead of being read. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn pain literature people It's quite enough to show a well-beaten dog the whip. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn punishment enough dog Of course God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion that exists on earth represents some face, some side of God. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn earth faces religion
