Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes


It makes me happier, more secure, to think that I do not have to plan and manage everything for myself, that I am only a sword made sharp to smite the unclean forces, an enchanted sword to cleave and disperse them. Grant, O Lord, that I may not break as I strike! Let me not fall from Thy hand!


Citations

Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr. The Oak and the Calf: A Memoir. Translated by Harry Willetts, Harper & Row, 1980, p. 509.

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  • Born: December 11, 1918
  • Died: August 3, 2008
  • Nationality: Russian
  • Profession: Author

Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn was a Russian novelist, philosopher, historian, short story writer and political prisoner. One of the most famous Soviet dissidents, Solzhenitsyn was an outspoken critic of communism and helped to raise global awareness of human rights abuses, the Gulag concentration camp system and political repression in the Soviet Union.