Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The belly is an ungrateful wretch, it never remembers past favors, it always wants more tomorrow. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#life

...you are strong only as long as you don't deprive people of everything. For a person you've taken everything from is no longer in your power. He's free all over again. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#power #freedom

Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#mass-media #superficiality #media

...it's only on a black day that you begin to have friends. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#friendship

A genius doesn't adjust his treatment of a theme to a tyrant's taste ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#life

Work was like a stick. It had two ends. When you worked for the knowing you gave them quality; when you worked for a fool you simply gave him eyewash. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#work #life

If a person can build a fence around himself, he is bound to do it. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#nature

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

#life

If state, party and social policy will not be based on morality, then mankind has no future to speak of. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#inspirational

I dedicate this to all those who did not live to tell it. And may they please forgive me for not having seen it all nor remembered it all, for not having divined all of it - from The Gulag Archipelago ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#life #truth #writing #death