Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes

“A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today. The Western world has lost its civic courage... Such a decline in courage is particularly noticeable among the ruling and intellectual elite, causing an impression of a loss of courage by the entire society.”

“A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.”

“Education doesn't make you smarter.”

“It's an universal law-- intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound education breeds humility.”

“Our envy of others devours us most of all.”

“The sole substitute for an experience we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.”

“To stand up for truth is nothing. For truth, you must sit in jail.”

“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.”