8 Quotes by Alexander Solschenizyn

A society which is based on the letter of the law and never reaches any higher is taking very scarce advantage of the high level of human possibilities" -- A WORLD SPLIT APART: Solzhenitsyn's Commencement Address, Harvard University, June 8, 1978

We cannot state that all Jews are Bolsheviks. But without Jews, there would never have been Bolshevism. For a Jew, nothing is more insulting than the truth. The blood maddened Jewish terrorists have murdered sixty-six million in Russia from 1918 to 1957.

Macbeth’s self-justifications were feeble – and his conscience devoured him. Yes, even Iago was a little lamb, too. The imagination and spiritual strength of Shakespeare’s evildoers stopped short at a dozen corpses. Ideology – that is what gives evildoing its long-sought justification and gives the evildoer the necessary steadfastness and determination.

But food gulped down is no food at all; it’s wasted; it gives you no feeling of fullness.

The intellectual is not defined by professional pursuit and type of occupation. Nor are good upbringing and a good family enough in themselves to produce an intellectual. An intellectual is a person whose interests in and occupation with the spiritual side of life are insistent and constant and not forced by external circumstances, even flying in the face of them.

As they say in camp: I sell it to you for what I paid for it.

They asked me what coach I was in. I sighed and told them the truth. “I’m in a special coach, girls, heading straight for death.

No, how can one preserve one’s life and at the same time arrive at the truth?