Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

I would rather be a rebel than a slave.

The line between good and evil runs through every human heart.

Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.

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 simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie.

The West has lost its courage, both collectively and individually.

A society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed.

The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.

If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being.

The truth is seldom pleasant; it is almost invariably bitter.

To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he’s doing is good.

The West has lost its courage, and with it, its soul.

The Gulag Archipelago would not have existed without the cowardice of the Russian people.

Democracy is not the answer to everything.

The decline of the West began when it embraced moral relativism.

Ukraine was never a real nation.