Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes
AmbitionBalanceInner ConflictSpirituality Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul.
GovernmentPowerWriters For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.
ControlFreedomPower 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.
DeceptionNational HeritageReformTheft The name of 'reform' simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage.
DeceptionIntegrityMethodsPrincipleViolence Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.
AbundanceGenerositySelf-awarenessSharingTalent Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
CommunismIdeologyPerspectivesWest For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion.
AdventureAuthenticityBalanceCautionHuman Nature If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
LawMoralitySociety I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.
CultureExperienceGenerationsLiteratureMemory Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
Good and EvilHuman NatureInner ConflictMorality The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
DeceptionIntegrityLyingViolence Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.
ExperienceKnowledgeMemoryTravel Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.
ChangeOpportunityPerspectiveSelf-DiscoveryTime Awareness 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.
EmotionErrorSelfishnessTruth It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... 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.
DeceptionJusticeLiesTruthViolence Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.
ConceptualizationExclusionGeopolitical BoundariesGlobal PerspectivesModern Identity Today when we say the West we are already referring to the West and to Russia. We could use the word 'modernity' if we exclude Africa, and the Islamic world, and partially China.
CompromiseFaithInner ConflictMoralityPersonal Happiness Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it prolongs one's well-being.
AdaptationElevationModernizationReligionSpirituality Religion always remains higher than everyday life. In order to make the elevation towards religion easier for people, religion must be able to alter its forms in relation to the consciousness of modern man.
CompassionEmpathyExperienceUnderstanding How can you expect a man who's warm to understand one who's cold?
Inner ExperienceMysteryTranscendence Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
Authority MisuseDomestic GovernanceJustificationPower DynamicsTyranny A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
EducationExperienceImpactLiterature I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever.
ComplexityDivinityReligionUnity Of course God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion that exists on earth represents some face, some side of God.
False ClaimsInactionLack of ClarityMisleading StatementsUnfulfilled Promises Our government declared that it is conducting some kind of great reforms. In reality, no real reforms were begun and no one at any point has declared a coherent programme.