Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes About Human Nature

Quotes about: Human Nature

• Human nature is full of riddles; . . . one of those riddles is: how is it that people who have been crushed by the sheer weight of slavery and cast to the bottom of the pit can nevertheless find strength in themselves to rise up and free themselves first in spirit and then in body while those who soar unhampered over the peaks of freedom suddenly lose the taste of freedom, lose the will to defend it, and, hopelessly confused and lost, almost begin to crave slavery?'

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Confused, People, Pits

• Human nature, if it changes at all, changes not much faster than the geological face of the earth.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Earth, Faces, Human Nature

• Our envy of others devours us most of all.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Inspirational, Gossip, Envy

• Human nature is full of riddles and contradictions; its very complexity engenders art-and by art I mean the search for something more than simple linear formulations, flat solutions, oversimplified explanations.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Art, Mean, Simple

• Human beings are better and lazier than their rules and instructions.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Human Nature, Instruction, Humans

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