Quotes By Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.

First would be the literary side, then the spiritual and philosophical. The political side is required principally because of the necessity of the current Russian position.

Religion always remains higher than everyday life. In order to make the elevation towards religion easier for people, religion must be able to alter its forms in relation to the consciousness of modern man.

Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.

It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.

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.

Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.

Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.

The next war... may well bury Western civilization forever.

Our government declared that it is conducting some kind of great reforms. In reality, no real reforms were begun and no one at any point has declared a coherent programme.

If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?

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.

For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion.

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.