Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes.

1. "It's an 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."
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2. "The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. "One word of truth outweighs the world."
- Quote by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

3. "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."
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4. "To stand up for truth is nothing. For truth, you must sit in jail."
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5. "Education doesn't make you smarter."
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6. "The sole substitute for an experience we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature."
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7. "Someone that you have deprived of everything is no longer in your power. He is once again entirely free."
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8. "A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny."
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9. "A great disaster had befallen Russia: Men have forgotten God; that's why all this has happened."
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10. "Do not pursue what is illusory - property and position: all that is gained at the expense of your nerves decade after decade and can be confiscated in one fell night. Live with a steady superiority over life - don't be afraid of misfortune, and do not yearn after happiness; it is after all, all the same: the bitter doesn't last forever, and the sweet never fills the cup to overflowing."
- Quote by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn