15 Quotes by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn about War

  • Author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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    Where an open war is impossible, oppression can continue quietly behind the scenes. Terrorism. Guerrilla warfare, violence, prisons, concentration camps. I ask you: Is this peace?The true antipode of peace is violence. And those who want peace in the world should remove not only war from the world but also violence. If there is no open war but there is still violence, that is not peace.

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    You know the words from the Bible: 'Build not on sand, but on rock....' Tyrant leaders respect only firmness...and laugh at persons who give in to them.

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    The Communists have for decades loudly proclaimed their goal of destroying the bourgeois world, while the West merely smiled at what seemed to be an extravagant joke.

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    The demands of internal growth are incomparably more important to us...than the need for any external expansion of our power.

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    Even if we are spared destruction by war, our lives will have to change if we want to save life from self-destruction.

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