Alexander Solzehnitsyn Quotes

"Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words."
- Alexander Solzehnitsyn
(Related: Name, Words)

"For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion."
- Alexander Solzehnitsyn
(Related: People, Communism, Living, Russia)

"Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing."
- Alexander Solzehnitsyn
(Related: Talent, Abundance, Sharing)

"The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all."
- Alexander Solzehnitsyn
(Related: Concern, Lies, Mankind, Salvation)

"Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence. Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle."
- Alexander Solzehnitsyn
(Related: Lie, Man, Violence)

"Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth."
- Alexander Solzehnitsyn
(Related: Truth)

"When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness."
- Alexander Solzehnitsyn
(Related: Truth)

"Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which are so dear to you - you do not even suspect that the day has already dawned outside."
- Alexander Solzehnitsyn
(Related: Day, Open)

"In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State."
- Alexander Solzehnitsyn
(Related: Lie, Country, State)

"It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations."
- Alexander Solzehnitsyn
(Related: Time, Rights, Human rights)