Famous quotes containing the word solzhenitsyn:
“For a country to have a great writer ... is like having another government. Thats why no rĂ©gime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.”
—Alexander Solzhenitsyn (b. 1918)
“You only have power over people so long as you dont take everything away from them. But when youve robbed a man of everything hes no longer in your powerhes free again.”
—Alexander Solzhenitsyn (b. 1918)
“I am of course confident that I will fulfil my tasks as a writer in all circumstancesfrom my grave even more successfully and more irrefutably than in my lifetime. No one can bar the road to truth, and to advance its cause I am prepared to accept even death. But may it be that repeated lessons will finally teach us not to stop the writers pen during his lifetime? At no time has this ennobled our history.”
—Alexander Solzhenitsyn (b. 1918)