#co

It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#because #comfortable #course #difficult #easiest

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

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#dead #dog #lion #living #many

How can you expect a man who's warm to understand one who's cold? ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#expect #how #man #understand #warm

Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#goal #himself #his #loses #man

Religion always remains higher than everyday life. In order to make the elevation towards religion easier for people, religion must be able to alter its forms in relation to the consciousness of modern man. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#alter #always #consciousness #easier #elevation

Literature becomes the living memory of a nation. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#literature #living #memory #nation

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

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#category #country #just #lie #moral

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

#ever #government #great #great writer #having

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

#communist #either #i #indeed #legal

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. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#begun #coherent #conducting #declared #government