ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN 1918-2008 “THE CANCER WARD”.
TO DESTROY A PEOPLE YOU MUST FIRST SEVER THEIR ROOTS.
TO DO EVIL A HUMAN BEING MUST FIRST OF ALL BELIEVE THAT WHAT HE’S DOING IS GOOD . . . IDEOLOGY — THAT IS WHAT GIVES DEVILDOING ITS LONG-SOUGHT JUSTIFICATION & GIVES THE EVILDOER THE NECESSARY STEADFASTNESS & DETERMINATION. THAT is the social theory which helps to make his acts seem good instead of bad in his own & others’ eyes so that he won’t hear reproaches & curses but will receive praise & honors.
THE SIMPLE STEP of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. One word of truth outweighs the world.
BOLSHEVISM committed the greatest human slaughter of all time. The fact that most of the world is ignorant & uncaring about this enormous crime is proof that the global media is in the hands of the perpetrators.
IF I were asked to formulate as concisely as possible what was the main cause of the ruinous revolution that swallowed up some 60 million of our people, I could not put it more accurately than to repeat:”Men had forgotten God; that is why all this has happened.”
YOU can resolve to live your life with integrity. Let your credo be this: Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me.
THE strength or weakness of a society depends more on the level of its spiritual life than on its level of industrialization. Neither a market economy nor even general abundance constitutes the crowning achievement of human life. If a nation’s spiritual energies have been exhausted, it will not be saved from collapse by the most perfect government structure or by any industrial development. A tree with a rotten core cannot stand.
MODERN SOCIETY is hypnotized by socialism. It is prevented by socialism from seeing the mortal danger it is in. And one of the greatest dangers of all is that you have lost all sense of danger, you cannot even see where it’s coming from as it moves swiftly towards you.
IT’S a universal law — intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound education breeds humility.
IF ONLY it were so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds & it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us & destroy them. But the line dividing good & evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart.
EVIL PEOPLE ALWAYS SUPPORT EACH OTHER; THAT IS THEIR CHIEF STRENGTH.
WE HEAR a constant clamor for rights, rights, always rights, but so very little about responsibility. And we have forgotten God. The need now is for selflessness, for a spirit of sacrifice, for a willingness to put aside personal gains for the salvation of the whole Western world.
UNLIMITED power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.
THE GENERATION now coming out of Western schools is unable to distinguish good from bad. even those words are unacceptable. This results in impaired thinking ability.
A STATE OF WAR ONLY SERVES AS AN EXCUSE FOR DOMESTIC TYRANNY.
WE have to condemn publicly the very idea that some people have the right to repress others . . . When we neither punish nor reproach eviloers . . . we are ripping the foundations of justice.
BLESS YOU PRISON, bless you for being in my life. For there, lying upon the rotting prison straw, I came to realize that the object of life is not property as we are made to believe but the maturity of the human soul.
WE DO NOT ERR because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err because this is more comfortable.
VIOLENCE can only be concealed by a lie & the lie caN ONLY BE MAINTAINED BY VIOLENCE.
IF WE DON’T KNOW our own history, then we simply have to endure all of the same mistakes, all of the same sacrifices, all of the same absurdities over again — times ten.