To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good... Ideology - that is what gives devildoing its long-sought justification and gives the evildoer the necessary steadfastness and determination. That is the social theory which helps to make his acts seem good instead of bad in his own and others' eyes, so that he won't hear reproaches and curses but will receive praise and honors.
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ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN That's why there's a devil—to judge the priests. ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Oh, how hard it is to part with power! This one has to understand. ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN The belly is an ungrateful wretch, it never remembers past favors, it always wants more tomorrow. ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN [He] understood the people in a new way...The people is not everyone who speaks our language, nor ye... ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Patriotism means unqualified and unwavering love for the nation, which implies not uncritical eagern... ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN Though it is clear that present-day Russia poses no threat to it, NATO is methodically and persisten... ALEKSANDER SOLZHENITSYN Foreign policy, considering our current situation and possibilities, is being conducted sensibly and... ALEKSANDER SOLZHENITSYN The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literatur... ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN If humanism were right in declaring that man is born to be happy, he would not be born to die. Since... ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Our government declared that it is conducting some kind of great reforms. In reality, no real reform... ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it ... ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Because instant and credible information has to be given, it becomes necessary to resort to guesswor... ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Look around you--there are people around you. Maybe you will remember one of them all your life and ... ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN I cannot suggest political ways out, that is the task of politicians, so it is simply that those who... ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN History has in different questions laid out some tremendous turnabouts and curves. ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Even if we are spared destruction by war, our lives will have to change if we want to save life from... ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when yo... ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere el... ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN - Не иначе как двенадцать, - объявил и Шухов. - Солнышко н... ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN My wish for you... is that your skeptic-eclectic brain be flooded with the light of truth. ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN The fact that no one made demands on her knowledge in her special field was lucky for Simochka. Not ... ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN So let the reader who expects this book to be a political exposé slam its covers shut right now. ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations. ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Violence does not necessarily take people by the throat and strangle them. Usually it demands no mor... ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN The sole substitute for an experience we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature. ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his p... ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century. ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN (Please forgive us, reader. We have once more gone astray with this rightist opportunism—this conc... ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Those who floated in the ark were weightless and had weightless thoughts. They were neither hungry n... ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN At no time have governments been moralists. They never imprisoned people and executed them for ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN No one, even as a joke, could call a member of the all-Union Communist Party a Neo-Hegelian, a Neo-K... ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN The name of 'reform' simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national h... ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Where an open war is impossible, oppression can continue quietly behind the scenes. Terrorism. Guerr... ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion. ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, n... ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN How can you expect a man who's warm to understand one who's cold? ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth. ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing. ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Literature becomes the living memory of a nation. ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those ... ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN By apeculiar coincidence, the very day when I was giving my address in Washington, ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN In our village, folks say God crumbles up the old moon into stars. ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN You can build the Empire State Building. Train the Prussian army. Elevate the hierarchy of a totalit... ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN I think, ladies and gentlemen, and I particularly address those of you who have a socialist outlook,... ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN That’s all very well, but how many family doctors would you need? It simply doesn’t fit into the... ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN You only have power over people as long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've... ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Now for the first time you were about to see people who were not your enemies. Now for the first tim... ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN