Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes

If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.

If what you do is being threatened as a profession, that could be scary. But that's the same reason why I walked out on stage many times after receiving death threats. I couldn't live without doing what I wanted to do. So at the same time I have to be willing to die for it.

If it is decreed that I should go down because of this speech, then let me go down linked to the truth—let me die in the advocacy of what is just and right.

There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily

To lay down one's life for the truth.

Are we willing to do for the truth what others are willing to do for a lie?

I find it incredibly romantic that people should fight for a cause they believe in and be prepared to die for it.

Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.

I always knew my death would be a possible consequence of the work I do. But for me it was a price I was willing to pay because this is what I believed in.

If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

I'm looking to be shot any time I step out of my car ... If I die, it will be in a good cause. I've been fighting for America just as much as the soldiers in Vietnam.

Anyone who wants to carry on the war against the outsiders, come with me. I can’t offer you either honours or wages; I offer you hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Anyone who loves his country, follow me.

We fight not for glory, nor for wealth, nor for honour, but for that freedom which no good man will surrender but with his life.

Mighty causes are calling us—the freeing of women, the training of children, the putting down of hate and murder and poverty—all these and more. But they will call us with voices that mean work and sacrifice and death

If there is one thing I fear less than everything else, it is, I believe, persecution for my opinions. There are a good many points about which I may be diffident, but when it comes to questions of Truth and intellectual independence, there is no holding me - I can envisage no finer end than to sacrifice oneself for a conviction.

It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.

We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.

We all have to find a cause we believe in and pursue it. Sometimes it may cost you your job, your personal life, your love life, etc.

Sacrifice life to truth.

Life is not worth living for which a man is not prepared to die at any moment.

There are things worth fighting for.

If you're not at least willing to die for something- something that really matters- in the end, you die for nothing.

Some missionaries bound for Africa were laughed at by the boat captain. 'You'll only die over there,' he said. But a missionary replied, 'Captain, we died before we started.'

Vitam impendere vero. To stake one's life for the truth.

It is far more difficult, I assure you, to live for the truth than to die for it.