Home / Quotes / Quote by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Quote by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“There are defendants whom the judges are afraid of.”

Quote by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Author

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, a Russian novelist, was born on December 11, 1918, and died on August 3, 2008. He is renowned for his works that profoundly exposed the dark side of the Soviet political system and is considered one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. more

You May Also Like

“A leader should not be a man who arbitrarily imported his own ideas but the essential focal point for a group of people who trusted one another and worked for a common aim.”

People Men Should Ideas Leadership Common Leader Groups Essentials Aim Trusted Be A Man Focal Point

Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“I refuse to see literature as amusement, as a game. I think that you ought not to approach literature without a moral responsibility for every word you write.”

Thinking Writing Literature Games Responsibility Moral Ought Approach Refuse Amusement Moral Responsibility

Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“The one and only substitute for experience which we have not ourselves had is art, literature. We have been given a miraculous faculty: Despite the differences of language, customs and social structure we are able to communicate life experience from one whole nation to another, to communicate a difficult national experience many decades long which the second of the two has never experienced.”

“Thus, literature, together with language, preserves and protects a nation's soul.”

Soul Together Literature Language Nations Protect Preserves

Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“After all, man is a complicated being, why should he be explainable by logic?”

Men Should Logic Complicated

Book:Cancer Ward: A Novel

Source: Cancer Ward: A Novel

“A meek fellow ... is a real godsend in any gang.”

Real Fellows Gang Meek Meekness

Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“A human being is all hope and impatience.”

Humans Human Beings Impatience

Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“Morality is always higher than law and we cannot forget this ever.”

Law Forget Higher Morality

Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“In military science there is a principle more important than "Forward": it is that the task should be proportionate to the means.”

Should Mean Important Principles Military Tasks

Book:August 1914

Source: August 1914

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

Ifs Fighting Mourning Mourn

Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn