#solzhenitsyn

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

"When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers, we are not simply protecting their trivial old age, we are thereby ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations."

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

[allthedesiredusernamesaretaken]

“ The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either, but right through every human heart. ”

- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago

[soviet-amateurs]

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Nobel prize winner in literature (1970) at the Eastern front in 1943 (with the gun, left)

[chrisengel]

[wastingquotes]

"When you're cold, don't expect sympathy from someone who's warm." -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

[rabbits-of-negative-euphoria]

Should we wrap it all up and simply say that [the Stalinists] arrested the innocent? But we omitted saying that the very concept of guilt had been repealed by the proletarian revolution and, at the beginning of the thirties, was defined as 'rightist opportunism'! So we can't even discuss these out-of-date concepts, guilt and innocence.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago, Ch. 2

[asyoulikeitnow]

If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, novelist, Nobel laureate (1918-2008)

[thequietabsolute]

‘The imagination and spiritual strength of Shakespeare’s evildoers stopped short at a dozen corpses ... Because they had no ideology.’

-- Solzhenitsyn