Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes (78 quotes)
![]() | “Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.” ―Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Source/Notes: Nobel lecture (1970) |
![]() | “Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.” ―Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Source/Notes: Nobel lecture (1970) |
![]() | “For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion.” ―Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Source/Notes: BBC Radio broadcast, Russian service, as quoted in The Listener (15 February 1979) |
![]() | “Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.” ―Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Source/Notes: Harvard University address (1978) |
![]() | “Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.” ―Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Source/Notes: Harvard University address (1978) |
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Born: December 11, 1918
Died: August 3, 2008 (aged 89)
Nationality: Russian
Occupation: Author, novelist, soldier, teacher
Bio: Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn was a writer, who, through his often-suppressed writings, helped to raise global awareness of the gulag, the Soviet Union's forced labor camp system from 1918 to 1956 particularly in The Gulag Archipelago and One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, two of his best-known works. Solzhenitsyn was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970.
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