Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes

The West is dead... you may lose a sweetheart but you won't forget her.

Modern man is in crisis. He has degenerated from the redoubtable pillar he became through centuries of refinement and slipped resignedly into the popular depiction of himself as a witless under-achiever, incapable of looking after himself or those around him.

A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today.

Wealth is what you take from the world; worth is what you give back.

Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed.

I regret that I should leave this world without again beholding him.

He was a man who wrote, who interpreted the world. Wisdom grew out of being handed just the smallest sliver of emotion. A glance could lead to paragraphs of theory.

There is so much in the world to care about.

Be a part of all that is decent and be an ambassador for the kind of world that you want to live in.

There are philanthropists who, incapable of managing their own little affairs, take upon themselves those of the whole world; but as their creditors always outnumber their disciples, they owe humanity more than she will ever owe them.

See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you are still in it

Instead of a homeland I hold the metamorphoses of the world.

What if we gave fifty percent of our discretionary budget to the world’s poor and then counted on the moral power of that action to protect us?

Once she was out of the car and gone, my world was suddenly hollow and meaningless.

The decline in literature indicates a decline in the nation. The two keep pace in their downward tendency.

You have too much respect upon the world; They lose it that do buy it with much care

The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does. By poetry I mean the imagining of what has been lost and what can be found - the imagining of who we are and the slow realization of it.

It's a civic virtue to be exposed to things that appear to be outside your interest. In a complex world, almost everything affects you – that closes the loop on pecuniary self-interest. Customers are always right, but people aren't.

The world seems a lonesome place when mother has passed away and only memories of her are left.

A man that puts himself on the ground of moral principle, if the whole world be against him, is mightier than all of them.

And as secretary of state, I fought hard for American businesses to get a fair shot around the world and to stop underhanded trading practices like currency manipulation and the theft of intellectual property.

It just feels to me like the death throes of an America that had many great things about it, but had many negative things about it. I don't want to go back.

It seems to me a most dreadful thing to go out of the world and not leave one person behind you who is sorry you are gone,' said Anne, shuddering.

We are here to repair the world. I grew up thinking that was what everybody was trying to do.

If the Constitution framers would come back today, they would have contempt for most of us.