Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes

There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Speech is the mirror of action.

What would happen if we spoke the truth?

People may find it more comfortable to listen to us if we equivocate, but in the long run only words that discomfort them are going to change our situation.

OK, so truth hurts - but what else does truth do?

I have always said I will try to answer questions honestly. I don't want to change that about myself. I think people appreciate that about me.

You need to tell the truth to the audience, or they will throw a brick through the TV. They'll turn you off.

Well, the truth is always what should be told. And the truth and the knowledge of the truth is what everybody should represent, regardless of the consequences of doing it.

Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be: why then should we desire to be deceived?

Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth.

Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.

Truth is powerful and it prevails.

I love being irreverent. But I hate being irrelevant. I love being irreverent because at the end of the day your actions belie your intentions.

Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide.

Better reality than a dream: if something is real, then it's real and you're not to blame.

Time will inevitably uncover dishonesty and lies; history has no place for them.

Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

I feel the weight of just telling the truth. There really is no weight to telling the truth. It's a little scary sometimes, but if you tell the truth, you don't have to be looking over your shoulder.

Actions lie louder than words.

As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

Hide nothing. It always gets found out.

Lying was a way of life. The solution to the problem is ultrasimple: tell the truth, no matter how painful.

Tell the truth and run.

We have to live with the world that we helped to create.

Trust is that there should be no difference between what you do and say, and what you think. /