Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes About Justice

Quotes about: Justice

• In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousandfold in the future. When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers . . . we are ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Spiritual, Integrity, Evil

  "The Gulag Archipelago". Book by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, www.believermag.com. 1973.

• Human rights' are a fine thing, but how can we make ourselves sure that our rights do not expand at the expense of the rights of others. A society with unlimited rights is incapable of standing to adversity. If we do not wish to be ruled by a coercive authority, then each of us must rein himself in...A stable society is achieved not by balancing opposing forces but by conscious self-limitation: by the principle that we are always duty-bound to defer to the sense of moral justice.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Adversity, Rights, Self

• We have to condemn publicly the very idea that some people have the right to repress others... When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers ... we are ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Ideas, People, Justice

• 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.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Religious, Peace, Voice

  Letter to three students (October 1967) as translated in "Solzhenitsyn: A Documentary Record" edited by Leopold Labedz, "The Struggle Intensifies", 1970.

• Violence, less and less embarrassed by the limits imposed by centuries of lawfulness, is brazenly and victoriously striding across the whole world, unconcerned that its infertility has been demonstrated and proved many times in history. What is more, it is not simply crude power that triumphs abroad, but its exultant justification. The world is being inundated by the brazen conviction that power can do anything, justice nothing.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Wisdom, Justice, Triumph

  Alexandr Solzhenitsyn - Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. 1970.

• The task must be to banish from mankind's thought the idea that anybody has the right to use force against righteousness, against justice, against mutual agreements.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Agreement, Ideas, Justice

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