Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes About Ideology

Quotes about: Ideology

• To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good... Ideology - that is what gives devildoing its long-sought justification and gives the evildoer the necessary steadfastness and determination. That is the social theory which helps to make his acts seem good instead of bad in his own and others' eyes, so that he won't hear reproaches and curses but will receive praise and honors.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Determination, Believe, Eye

• To reject this inhuman Communist ideology is simply to be a human being. Such a rejection is more than a political act. It is a protest of our souls against those who would have us forget the concepts of good and evil.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  War, Evil, Rejection

• Communist propaganda would sometimes include statements such as "we include almost all the commandments of the Gospel in our ideology". The difference is that the Gospel asks all this to be achieved through love, through self-limitation, but socialism only uses coercion. This is one point.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Self, Differences, Use

  Source: www.orthodoxytoday.org

• 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

  Spiritual, Self, Imagination

  "The Gulag Archipelago". Book by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, 1973.

• Ideology - that is what gives evildoing its long-sought justification and gives the evildoer the neccessary steadfastness and determination... Thanks to ideology, the twentieth century was fated to experience evildoing on a scale calculated in the millions.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Determination, Long, Giving

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