13 quotes by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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

Happiness

4.5 · 34 votes

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Truth

4.2 · 37 votes

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For a country to have a great Writeris like having another government. That's why no régime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.

Writers

3.7 · 38 votes · 148 reads

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

Communism

3.8 · 44 votes · 133 reads

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Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.

Media

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Government and Politics
I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.
4.0 · 47 votes · 139 reads
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Thought and Reason
In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.
4.4 · 42 votes · 194 reads
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Society
It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
3.2 · 44 votes · 75 reads
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Art and Culture
Literature that is not the breath of contemporary society, that dares not transmit the pains and fears of that society, that does not warn in time against threatening moral and social dangers - such literature does not deserve the name of literature; it i
4.7 · 9 votes · 132 reads
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Feelings
One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other,
3.2 · 12 votes · 173 reads
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Virtues
The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.
5.0 · 56 votes · 174 reads
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Thought and Reason
When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
4.8 · 55 votes · 183 reads
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Government and Politics
You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power - he's free again.
3.0 · 38 votes · 167 reads
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