Quotes by Alexander Solzehnitsyn

• A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
• Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
• For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion.
• Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
• The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.
• Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence. Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.
• Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
• When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
• Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which are so dear to you - you do not even suspect that the day has already dawned outside.
• In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.
• It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.