Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes

They do injury to the good who spares the bad.

Where do murderers go, man! Who's to doom, when the judge himself is dragged to the bar?

The capture of Saddam Hussein has proven to the bad ones, to the guilty ones, to the sinful ones that they cannot run forever. Sooner or later, the other criminals will also be found from their hideouts.

When an athlete has relegated the persistent rumors of cheating to the back room of the mind, he hasn't really forgotten them. And when he glances back to where rumors hunker in the darkness, he hopes with a savage heart that somehow, some day, those cheaters will be brought to justice.

Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.

Only lies and evil come from letting people off.

Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.

Unless we provide consequences for activities and actions that are wrong, we are not going to get any truth.

Treason doth never prosper, what's the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it Treason.

The man who was excellent, I rewarded him well; who was evil, I punished him well.

We have crime without punishment.

Because of a few, disasters come upon a whole people, and because of the evil deeds of one, many have to taste their fruits.

From this window we see the palace where the King is misled by perfidious counsels. Terror and fear have often issued from yon palace: let them return to-day in the name of the law, and let all those who inhabit that palace know that the King is alone inviolable, that the law will strike down the guilty without respect of persons, and that there is not a guilty head which can escape its sword.

There is no justice if wrongdoers go unpunished and victims do not feel avenged.

Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted, the indifference of those who should have known better, the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most, that has made it possible for evil to triumph.

If I do bad, shoot me.

If I want to call somebody's name out, I want to make sure they've done wrong.

If you're doing something wrong, you deserve to be caught.

People ought to be slapped up side of the head, not always get what they expect. That's why sometimes the bad guy gets away.

Some people will have to be afraid. Those who plunder the nation, deliver injustice, will have to feel scared of me. And I am not afraid of admitting this. Government cannot be so lenient that it forgives them.

They want to do the right thing, most people. For that little core that doesn't want to do the right thing and gets away with it routinely, most people want to see them get a good whupping. And I am your girl.

Dad was a very, very principled man, and he hated any kind of story where the baddies get away with it.

I couldn't believe that talk about Jon Jones fighting Lesnar - that would have zero legitimacy. In society, we punish people that do bad things. Why isn't it the same in fighting?

You can't do people wrong. You can't do people dirty or put people's life in jeopardy and expect to walk away freely and just continue to live this happy and prosperous life. That's not how the universe and the way of life works.

... No one "gets away" with evil. Judgment always comes, only the timing is uncertain.