Creative Quotations from . . .
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
(1918-____) born on
Dec 11
Russian novelist. "He is well known for his books describing forced labor camps, e.g., "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich," 1962."
 
   
F
It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under God's heaven.

R
"Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice."
A
In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.
N
"Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press."
K
"Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory."


Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: "In "Artists in Quotation," by Donna Ward La Cour, 1989."
R: "Letter to three students, Oct. 1967; in "Solzhenitsyn: A Documentary Record," by Leopold Labedz, 1970."
A: "The Observer," 'Sayings of the Year', 29 Dec 1974"
N: "Commencement Address, 7 June 1978, Harvard University."
K: "In "Time," 25 Feb 74"



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