Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes About Mankind

Quotes about: Mankind

• I hope that no one present will suspect me of offering my personal criticism of the Western system to present socialism as an alternative. Having experienced applied socialism in a country where the alternative has been realized, I certainly will not speak for it. The well-known Soviet mathematician Shafarevich, a member of the Soviet Academy of Science, has written a brilliant book under the title Socialism; it is a profound analysis showing that socialism of any type and shade leads to a total destruction of the human spirit and to a leveling of mankind into death.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Country, Book, Offering

  A World Split Apart, delivered 8 June 1978, Harvard University

• To coexist with communism on the same planet is impossible. Either it will spread, cancer-like, to destroy mankind, or else mankind will have to rid itself of communism (and even then face lengthy treatment for secondary tumors).

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  War, Cancer, Faces

• The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Lying, Responsibility, Humanity

• ... scientists have made no clear effort to become an important, independently active force of mankind. Whole congresses at a time, they back away from the suffering of others; it is more comfortable to stay within the bounds of science.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Science, Suffering Of Others, Effort

• One world, one mankind cannot exist in the face of six, four or even two scales of values: We shall be torn apart by this disparity of rhythm, this disparity of vibrations.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Wisdom, Two, Torn Apart

  Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, Anne Applebaum (2007). “The Gulag Archipelago Volume 2: An Experiment in Literary Investigation”, Harper Perennial Modern Classics

• If state, party and social policy will not be based on morality, then mankind has no future to speak of.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Party, Morality, Speak

• 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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