Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes

I'm a perpetually mad person. I hate injustice. As far as I'm concerned, I'm living to fight injustice. I'm living to fight the goddamned thing. I'm too mad to sleep.

Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is always in the hope of those injustices being somewhat corrected and a little more justice established.

You give me electric chair. I no afraid of that chair! You're one of capitalists. You is crook man too. Put me in electric chair. I no care!

People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.

I think people should be angry at things that are worthy of anger. Injustice is outrageous and deserves outrage.

For we went, changing our country more often than our shoes In the class war, despairing When there was only injustice and no resistance

And do not acquiesce to the unjust …

A minority of malcontents, some justly, some unjustly, angry with the present state of things, will always exist in this world.

As long as the world shall last, there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.

The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion

The character of Robin Hood stands for the deep anger of the dispossessed against the ruling classes.

Injustice drives me crazy!

The only way I can pay back for what fate and society have handed me is to try, in minor totally useless ways, to make an angry sound against injustice.

I'll rail against what I think is wrong.

If you want to be a real human being - a real woman, a real man - you cannot tolerate things which put you to indignation, to outrage. You must stand up. I always say to people, 'Look around; look at what makes you unhappy, what makes you furious, and then engage yourself in some action.'

In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.

But now with the living conditions deteriorating, and with the sure knowledge that we are slated for destruction, we have been transformed into an implacable army of liberation.

I really hate the people in power. I hate them with every fiber of my being. That is what drives me in almost everything I do.

Then they came for me - and there was no one left to speak out for me.

Anybody intelligent enough to realize what America is, is not going to sit around and do nothing about it. They're going to be the same way that I am. They're going to be the same way our fans are. They're going to be pissed.

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.

I have been, and will go on, fighting that damnable, dirty, rotten business with all the power at my command.

The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough.

Anger is wonderful. It keeps you going. I'm angry about bankers. About the government.

We have not forgotten the occupier. We remain a resistance.