Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes About War

Quotes about: War

• Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Peace, War, Lying

  Nobel lecture as quoted in "Solzhenitsyn: A Documentary Record" edited by Leopold Labedz, 1974.

• A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Peace, War, Historical

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

• 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

• 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

• Any man who has once acclaimed violence as his method must inexorably choose falsehood as his principle.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Peace, War, Lying

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. 1970.

• Even if we are spared destruction by war, our lives will have to change if we want to save life from self-destruction.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Peace, War, Self

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

• Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Peace, War, Lying

  Nobel lecture as quoted in "Solzhenitsyn: A Documentary Record" edited by Leopold Labedz, 1974.

• The next war... may well bury Western civilization forever.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Peace, War, Civilization

• The demands of internal growth are incomparably more important to us...than the need for any external expansion of our power.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Peace, War, Growth

• I would rather have the United States as the world's policeman than the Soviet Union as the world's jailer.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  War, United States, World

• The Communists have for decades loudly proclaimed their goal of destroying the bourgeois world, while the West merely smiled at what seemed to be an extravagant joke.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  War, Goal, World

• Patriotism means unqualified and unwavering love for the nation, which implies not uncritical eagerness to serve, not support for unjust claims, but frank assessment of its vices and sins, and penitence for them.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Peace, War, Mean

• Communism will never be halted by negotiations or through the machinations of detente. It can only be halted by force from without or by disintegration from within.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  War, Cold, Communism

• Nowhere on the planet, nowhere in history, was there a regime more vicious, more bloodthirsty, and at the same time more cunning than the Bolshevik, the self-styled Soviet regime.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  War, Self, Cold

• You know the words from the Bible: 'Build not on sand, but on rock....' Tyrant leaders respect only firmness...and laugh at persons who give in to them.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  War, Rocks, Tyrants

• It takes a fool to rush off to war!

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  War, Fool

• Only a magician can fix a head on a body, but any fool can lop it off.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  War, Fool, Body

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1991). “Cancer Ward: A Novel”, p.71, Macmillan

• There is something predetermined in the mutual attraction between Germany and Russia. Otherwise, this attraction would not have survived two ghastly World Wars.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  War, Russia, Mutual Attraction

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• A whole week, a single campaign, a month, a week, even a day was far more than enough to cut a company or platoon to ribbons or cripple a man for life: it needed only a quarter of an hour.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  War, Cutting, Men

• Any fool can bomb a train, but just try sorting out the mess.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  War, Trying, Sorting Out

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (2015). “Stories and Prose Poems”, p.185, Macmillan

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