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• For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Dog, Russia, People

  Broadcast on BBC Russian Service, in Listener 15 Feb. 1979

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• A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Happiness, Being Happy, Attitude

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

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Peace, War, Civilization

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• Here again we witness the single outcome of a worldwide process, with East and West yielding the same results, and once again for the same reason: Men have forgotten God.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Men, Evil, East

  "Have We Forgotten God?" by John W. Whitehead, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• Someone that you have deprived of everything is no longer in your power. He is once again entirely free.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Power, Deprived

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• It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Selfish, Mistake, Emotion

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• What is the most precious thing in the world? I see now that it is the knowledge that you have no part in injustice. Injustice is stronger than you, it always was and always will be, but let it not be done through you.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Stronger, Done, World

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• It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Inspirational, Motivational, Ignorance

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

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• That which is called humanism, but what would be more correctly called irreligious anthropocentrism, cannot yield answers to the most essential questions of our life

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Yield, Essentials, Would Be

  Interview With Joseph Pearce, www.catholiceducation.org. February, 2003.

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• Freedom! To fill people's mailboxes, eyes, ears and brains with commercial rubbish against their will, television programs that are impossible to watch with a sense of coherence. Freedom! To force information on people, taking no account of their right not to accept it or their right of peace of mind. Freedom! To spit in the eyes and souls of passersby with advertisements.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Eye, Mind Freedom, People

  "The Exile Returns" by David Remnick, www.newyorker.com. February 14, 1994.

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• ... people don't know what they are striving for. They waste themselves in senseless thrashing around for the sake of a handful of goods and die without realizing their spiritual wealth.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Spiritual, People, Sake

  Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn (1973). “The First Circle”

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• An engineer cannot participate in irrationality.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Engineering, Engineers, Irrationality

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• The simple act of an ordinary courageous man is not to take part, not to support lies! Let that come into the world and even reign over it, but not through me. Writers and artists can do more: they can vanquish lies! ... Lies can stand up against much in the world, but not against art.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Art, Lying, Simple

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• 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

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• Should one point out that from ancient times decline in courage has been considered the beginning of the end?

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Ancient, Decline, Ends

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

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• The meaning of earthly existence lies not, as we have grown used to thinking, in prospering, but in the development of the soul...

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Spiritual, Lying, Thinking

  "The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956" by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, (Part IV), 1973.

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• The task of the artist is to sense more keenly than others the harmony of the world, the beauty and the outrage of what man has done to it, and poignantly to let people know.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Art, Men, People

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• Happiness doesn't depend on the actual number of blessings we manage to scratch from life, only our attitude towards them.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Happy, Attitude, Blessing

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• 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

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• If... if... We didn't love freedom enough. And even more - we had no awareness of the real situation. We spent ourselves in one unrestrained outburst in 1917, and then we hurried to submit. We submitted with pleasure! ........... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.

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  Real, Gun, Awareness

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• Our envy of others devours us most of all.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Inspirational, Gossip, Envy

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• Mourn if you must, but don't stop fighting.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Fighting, Mourning, Mourn

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• 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.

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• It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under God's heaven.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Artist, Heaven, Realizing

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• The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either - but right through every human heart - and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. And even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Party, Heart, Humility

  "The Gulag Archipelago". Book by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, 1974.

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