Quotes
Authors
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
"In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousandfold in the future. When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers . . . we are ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations." --
Source : "The Gulag Archipelago". Book by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, www.believermag.com. 1973.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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“He was swept with a sadness, a sadness deep and penetrating, leaving him desolate like someone washed up on a beach, a lone survivor in a world full of strangers.”
“If I spend 100 days in a row making music there’s a chance nothing will come of it. But if I spend 100 days not making music it’s guaranteed that nothing will come of it. So keep working.”
“Sometimes I feel like a melody doesn't have anything to do with me, but it's just something that comes, is accumulated from me playing on the piano, and then this little creature just appears.”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“If a single one of these gentlemen is correct, if a believer of any type is right, the essential truth for man, the real drama of life, in comparison with which the secular story of the race, is a puppet-show and the unfolding of the universe is a triviality, is the dialogue of the immortal soul and the eternal God. Yet it seems that there is nothing in the world so hard to discover as this. The theory refutes itself.”
Source : "The Psychology of Religion". Book by Joseph McCabe, 1927.
“I can count off on one hand the number of times I've used testosterone gel - because it doesn't really do much.”
“Wisdom often exists under a shabby coat.”
“There's still plenty of people who have this deep conviction that America is a Christian country and ought to say so in its Constitution, etc. But that's not the legal basis on which we're framed. So the flourishing of religion, of religious diversity, is really built into who we are.”
Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
“I'm very political without being political. I don't know how to speak proper political language.”