Quotes by Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn

"It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves."

"A great writer is, so to speak, a second government in his country. And for that reason no regime has ever loved great writers,"

"One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should direct them t"

"In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion within these barriers an author may write what"

"A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him."

"If decade after decade the truth cannot be told, each person's mind begins to roam irretrievably. One's fellow countrymen become"

"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"

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