Top 10 Quotes From Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie.

One word of truth outweighs the world.

Such as it is, the press has become the greatest power within the Western World, more powerful than the legislature, the executive and judiciary. One would like to ask; by whom has it been elected and to whom is it responsible?

To destroy a people, you must first sever their roots.

We hear a constant clamor for rights, rights, always rights, but so very little about responsibility. And we have forgotten God. The need now is for selflessness, for a spirit of sacrifice, for a willingness to put aside personal gains for the salvation of the whole Western worl

Evil people always support each other; that is their chief strength.

Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.

The generation now coming out of Western schools is unable to distinguish good from bad. Even those words are unacceptable. This results in impaired thinking ability.

Bless you prison, bless you for being in my life. For there, lying upon the rotting prison straw, I came to realize that the object of life is not prosperity as we are made to believe, but the maturity of the human soul.

Surrender one hair, and you'll end up beardless.