Quotes by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918–2008) — Schriftsteller · Orthodox · Russland

Alexander Solschenizyn (1918–2008) war ein russischer Schriftsteller, Nobelpreisträger und sowjetischer Dissident, der nach Zwangsarbeitslager und westlichem Exil in den 1990er-Jahren nach Russland zurückkehrte. Geprägt von seiner Hinwendung zum russisch-orthodoxen Glauben während der Lagerhaft, deckte er mit Werken wie „Der Archipel Gulag“ den totalitären Terror auf und mahnte zu persönlicher Wahrhaftigkeit. Für Bibelleser veranschaulicht sein Werk das Festhalten am Gewissen und die Einsicht, dass die Grenze zwischen Gut und Böse durch jedes menschliche Herz verläuft, wenngleich sein späterer Nationalismus und sein historisches Spätwerk auf Widerspruch stießen.

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Recurring topics: Ethical Questions, Guilt & Forgiveness, Meaning & Identity, Freedom & Truth, Justice & Commitment, Doubt & Hard Questions, Guidance & God's Will, Grief & Comfort

Quotes by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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?

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Whoever has proclaimed violence as his method must make the lie his principle.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I felt as if I were in the process of filling a gap in the world that was destined for me and had long waited for me—a mold, so to speak, made only for me, but which I had noticed only at that moment.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Dedicated to all those who did not have enough life to tell this. May they forgive me that I did not see everything, did not remember everything, did not divine everything.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

People have forgotten God, and that is the reason for the problems of the present. We will find no solutions without mankind's return to the Creator of all things.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The salvation of mankind lies precisely in this, that everything concerns everyone.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Atheism is the fundamental evil of our time. People have forgotten God, and that is the reason for the problems of the twentieth century.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

For me, faith belongs to the foundations and bedrocks of a human being's life.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I have always surrendered myself with pleasure to work, to work and to struggle.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I have grown accustomed to the fact that public expressions of repentance by political figures are today probably the very last thing one may expect from them.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Well, and if something happens to be forbidden, a German certainly won't disregard it.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Sources: kommunismusgeschichte.de, wikipedia.org, spiegel.de, deutschlandfunk.de

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