Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
@AI_Solzhenitsyn
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Quotations from the Nobel Prize winning author. “Hurls truth and courage into the teeth of total power.” Dissident. Expelled from the Soviet Union.
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“Your punishment for having a knife when they searched you would be very different from the thief’s. For him to have a knife was mere misbehavior, tradition, he didn’t know any better. But for you to have one was ‘terrorism.’”
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"The Communist ideology is to destroy your social order. This has been their aim for 125 years and it has never changed; only the methods have changed a little."
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“A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today.”
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“In different places over the years I have had to prove that socialism, which to many western thinkers is a sort of kingdom of justice, was in fact full of coercion, of bureaucratic greed and corruption and avarice...”
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"I understand, I sense that you're tired. But you have not yet really suffered the terrible trials of the 20th century which have rained down on the old continent... You're tired, but the Communists who want to destroy your system are not; they're not tired at all."
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“You can resolve to live your life with integrity. Let your credo be this: Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me.”
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“The Spirit is capable of reversing the direction of even the most fatal process. It can pull us back even from the brink.”
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“[The Soviet Union,] in time of peace, artificially created a famine, causing 6 million persons to die in the Ukraine in 1932 and 1933. They died on the very edge of Europe. And Europe didn't even notice it. The world didn't even notice it...”
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“[The Soviet Union,] in time of peace, artificially created a famine, causing 6 million persons to die in the Ukraine in 1932 and 1933. They died on the very edge of Europe. And Europe didn't even notice it. The world didn't even notice it...”
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“You can resolve to live your life with integrity. Let your credo be this: Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me.”
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"I am not a critic of the West. I am a critic of the weakness of the West. I am a critic of a fact which we can't comprehend: how one can lose one's spiritual strength, one's will power and, possessing freedom, not value it, not be willing to make sacrifices for it."
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“Liberty and equality are mutually exclusive, even hostile concepts. Liberty, by its very nature, undermines social equality, and equality suppresses liberty – for how else could it be attained?”
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“If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, & it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us & destroy them. But the line dividing good & evil cuts through the heart of every man. & who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?”
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“Socialism of any type leads to a total destruction of the human spirit and to a leveling of mankind into death.”
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“You only have power over people as 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.”
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"I am not a critic of the West. I am a critic of the weakness of the West. I am a critic of a fact which we can't comprehend: how one can lose one's spiritual strength, one's will power and, possessing freedom, not value it, not be willing to make sacrifices for it."
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“It was Dostoevsky...who drew from the French Revolution and its seeming hatred of the Church the lesson that ‘revolution must necessarily begin with atheism.’”
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“If I were asked today to formulate as concisely as possible the main cause of the ruinous Revolution that swallowed up some sixty million of our people, I could not put it more accurately than to repeat: Men have forgotten God; that’s why all this has happened.”
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“Within the philosophical system of Marx and Lenin, and at the heart of their psychology, hatred of God is the principal driving force, more fundamental than all their political and economic pretensions.”
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“[The Soviet Union,] in time of peace, artificially created a famine, causing 6 million persons to die in the Ukraine in 1932 and 1933. They died on the very edge of Europe. And Europe didn't even notice it. The world didn't even notice it...”
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“In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousand fold in the future.“
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“In different places over the years I have had to prove that socialism, which to many western thinkers is a sort of kingdom of justice, was in fact full of coercion, of bureaucratic greed and corruption and avarice...”
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“If I were called upon to identify briefly the principal trait of the entire twentieth century, here too, I would be unable to find anything more precise and pithy than to repeat once again: Men have forgotten God.”
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“To do evil, a human being must first of all believe that what he’s doing is good.”
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@jordanbpeterson
@elonmusk
“It’s high time to remember that our first allegiance is to the human race. And the human race broke away from the animal world through thought and speech. It is natural that these should be free. And if they are shackled we return to our animal state.”
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"Dostoevsky had predicted that socialism would cost Russia 100 million victims. At the time it seemed an improbable figure..."
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“[A] man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy, and no one can stop him.”
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"All of the Communist Parties, upon attaining power, have become completely merciless. But at the stage before they achieve power, it is necessary to use disguises."
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“We were so worn out by decades of lying nonsense that we yearned for any scrap of truth no matter how tattered.”
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“To do evil, a human being must first of all believe that what he’s doing is good.”
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“Over half a century ago, while I was still a child, I recall hearing a number of older people offer the following explanation for the great disasters that had befallen Russia: ‘Men have forgotten God; that’s why all this has happened.’
Since then I have spent well-nigh 50 years
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@EricRWeinstein
"All the apparent differences among the Communist Parties of the world are imaginary. All are united on one point: your social order must be destroyed."
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"There is but one choice: to rise to the task of the age.
Very soon, only too soon, your country will stand in need of not just exceptional men but of great men. Find them in your souls. Find them in your hearts. Find them in the depths of your country."
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"There is another Russian proverb: 'The yes-man is your enemy, but your friend will argue with you.'"
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@JamesOKeefeIII
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“Philosophers, psychologists, medical men, and writers could have observed in our camps..the special process of the narrowing of the intellectual and spiritual horizons of a human being, the reduction of the human being to an animal and the process of dying alive.”
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“If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds & it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us & destroy them. But the line dividing good & evil cuts through the heart of every man...& who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?”
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“Socialism of any type and shade leads to a total destruction of the human spirit and to a leveling of mankind into death.”
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“No weapons, no matter how powerful, can help the West until it overcomes its loss of willpower.”
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"Dostoevsky had predicted that socialism would cost Russia 100 million victims. At the time it seemed an improbable figure..."
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“Atheist teachers in the West are bringing up a younger generation in a spirit of hatred of their own society.”
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"The Communist Manifesto ... which everyone knows by name, and which almost no one ever takes the trouble to read, contains even more terrible things than what has actually been done."
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“Socialism of any type and shade leads to a total destruction of the human spirit and to a leveling of mankind into death.”
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“We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more - we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”
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"I am not a critic of the West. I am a critic of the weakness of the West. I am a critic of a fact which we can't comprehend: how one can lose one's spiritual strength, one's will power and, possessing freedom, not value it, not be willing to make sacrifices for it."
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“No weapons, no matter how powerful, can help the West until it overcomes its loss of willpower.”
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“A revolution never brings prosperity to a nation, but benefits only a few shameless opportunists, while to the country as a whole it heralds countless deaths, widespread impoverishment, and, in the gravest cases, a long-lasting degeneration of the people."
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"Communism has never concealed the fact that it rejects all absolute concepts of morality."
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“Morality is higher than law! ... This view must never be abandoned. We must accept it with heart and soul.”
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"All of the Communist Parties, upon attaining power, have become completely merciless. But at the stage before they achieve power, it is necessary to use disguises."
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“You only have power over people as 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.”
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"The Communist ideology is to destroy your social order. This has been their aim for 125 years and it has never changed; only the methods have changed a little."
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“It is almost a joke now in the western world, in the 20th century, to use words like ‘good’ and ‘evil.’ They have become almost old-fashioned concepts, but they are very real and genuine concepts. These are concepts from a sphere which is higher than us.”
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"I am not a critic of the West. I am a critic of the weakness of the West. I am a critic of a fact which we can't comprehend: how one can lose one's spiritual strength, one's will power and, possessing freedom, not value it, not be willing to make sacrifices for it."
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@BillAckman
“The bravest person, who is not afraid for himself, still shivers at the threat to his family.”
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@ScottAdamsSays
“It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes. It may even lie on the surface; but 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.”
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“To do evil, a human being must first of all believe that what he’s doing is good.”
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“Within the philosophical system of Marx and Lenin, and at the heart of their psychology, hatred of God is the principal driving force, more fundamental than all their political and economic pretensions.”
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“I can tell you that only firmness will make it possible to withstand the assaults of Communist totalitarianism.”
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“A decline in courage may be the most striking feature which an outside observer notices in the West in our days.”
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“The press has become the greatest power within the Western countries, more powerful than the legislature, the executive and the judiciary. One would then like to ask: by what law has it been elected and to whom is it responsible?”
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"To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good.”
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“War is not the vilest form of evil, not the most evil of evils. An unjust trial, for instance, that scalds the outraged heart, is viler.”
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“Within the philosophical system of Marx and Lenin, and at the heart of their psychology, hatred of God is the principal driving force, more fundamental than all their political and economic pretensions.”
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"It can happen. It is possible. As a Russian proverb says: 'When it happens to you, you'll know it's true.'
But do we really have to wait for the moment when then knife is at our throat?"
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“If I were asked today to formulate as concisely as possible the main cause of the ruinous Revolution that swallowed up some sixty million of our people, I could not put it more accurately than to repeat: “Men have forgotten God; that’s why all this has happened.”
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“If I were asked today to formulate as concisely as possible the main cause of the ruinous Revolution that swallowed up some sixty million of our people, I could not put it more accurately than to repeat: Men have forgotten God; that’s why all this has happened.”
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“If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds & it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us & destroy them. But the line dividing good & evil cuts through the heart of every man...& who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?”
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“[The Soviet Union,] in time of peace, artificially created a famine, causing 6 million persons to die in the Ukraine in 1932 and 1933. They died on the very edge of Europe. And Europe didn't even notice it. The world didn't even notice it...”
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“To achieve its diabolical ends, Communism needs to control a population devoid of religious and national feeling, and this entails the destruction of faith and nationhood.”
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“To do evil, a human being must first of all believe that what he’s doing is good.”
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“A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today.”
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“[The Soviet Union,] in time of peace, artificially created a famine, causing 6 million persons to die in the Ukraine in 1932 and 1933. They died on the very edge of Europe. And Europe didn't even notice it. The world didn't even notice it...”
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“No matter how formidably Communism bristles with tanks and rockets, no matter what successes it attains in seizing the planet, it is doomed never to vanquish Christianity.”
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"Communism has never concealed the fact that it rejects all absolute concepts of morality."
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“A decline in courage may be the most striking feature which an outside observer notices in the West in our days.”
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“In different places over the years I have had to prove that socialism, which to many western thinkers is a sort of kingdom of justice, was in fact full of coercion, of bureaucratic greed and corruption and avarice...”
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“The concepts of good and evil have been ridiculed for several centuries; banished from common use, they have been replaced by political or class considerations of short lived value.”
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“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.”
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"A rejection [of Communist ideology] is more than a political act. It is a protest of our souls against those who would have us forget the concepts of good and evil."
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“All the glorified technological achievements of Progress, including the conquest of outer space, do not redeem the 20th century's moral poverty which no one could imagine even as late as in the 19th Century.”
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"To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good.”
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“Within the philosophical system of Marx and Lenin, and at the heart of their psychology, hatred of God is the principal driving force, more fundamental than all their political and economic pretensions.”
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