ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN, Cancer Ward
Work was like a stick. It had two ends. When you worked for the knowing you gave them quality; when you worked for a fool you simply gave him eyewash.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
You know, there was a time at the beginning of the 50's when this nuclear threat hung over the world, but the attitude of the West was like granite and the West did not yield. Today, this nuclear threat still hangs on both sides, but the West has chosen the wrong path of making concessions.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN,Warning to the West
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, and consistent within itself that socialism cannot be implemented without the aid of coercion. Communist propaganda would sometimes include statements such as "we include almost all the commandments of the Gospel in our ideology". The difference is that the Gospel asks all this to be achieved through love, through self-limitation, but socialism only uses coercion.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN, interview, St. Austin Review, February 2003
The belly is an ungrateful wretch, it never remembers past favors, it always wants more tomorrow.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
