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The price of cowardice will only be evil. We shall reap courage and victory only when we dare to make sacrifices.

The price of cowardice will only be evil. We shall reap courage and victory only when we dare to make sacrifices.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Wisdom, Sacrifice, Evil

Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, Anne Applebaum (2007). “The Gulag Archipelago Volume 2: An Experiment in Literary Investigation”, Harper Perennial Modern Classics

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.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Spiritual, Integrity, Evil

"The Gulag Archipelago". Book by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, www.believermag.com. 1973.

To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Integrity, Believe, Evil

To reject this inhuman Communist ideology is simply to be a human being. Such a rejection is more than a political act. It is a protest of our souls against those who would have us forget the concepts of good and evil.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

War, Evil, Rejection

Here again we witness the single outcome of a worldwide process, with East and West yielding the same results, and once again for the same reason: Men have forgotten God.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Men, Evil, East

"Have We Forgotten God?" by John W. Whitehead, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good, or else that it's a well-considered act in conformity with natural law. Fortunately, it is in the nature of the human being to seek a justification for his actions.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Believe, Law, Evil