Quotes By Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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.

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

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

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

In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.

Our government declared that it is conducting some kind of great reforms. In reality, no real reforms were begun and no one at any point has declared a coherent programme.

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.

Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.

The name of "reform" simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage.

Of course God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion that exists on earth represents some face, some side of God.

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

I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever.

Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory.

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