“Communism is as crude an attempt to explain society and the individual as if a surgeon were to perform his delicate operations with a meat ax. All that is subtle in human psychology and in the structure of society (which is even more complex), all of this is reduced to crude economic processes. The whole created being—man—is reduced to matter. It is characteristic that Communism is so devoid of arguments that it has none to advance against its opponents in our Communist countries. It lacks arguments and hence there is the club, the prison, the concentration camp, and insane asylums with forced confinement.”
“Communism is as crude an attempt to explain society and the individual as if a surgeon were to perform his delicate operations with a meat ax. All that is subtle in human psychology and in the structure of society (which is even more complex), all of this is reduced to crude economic processes. The whole created being—man—is reduced to matter. It is characteristic that Communism is so devoid of arguments that it has none to advance against its opponents in our Communist countries. It lacks arguments and hence there is the club, the prison, the concentration camp, and insane asylums with forced confinement.”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“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.”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn“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.”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn“For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn“It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn“Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn“Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn“When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn“The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn“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.”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn“The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.”
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