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The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. One word of truth outweighs the world.

The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. "One word of truth outweighs the world.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Truth, Honesty, Lying

You can resolve to live your life with integrity. Let your credo be this: Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Lying, Integrity, Live Your Life
"Thinking About Alexander Solzhenitsyn" by Don Meyer, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 18, 2012.

Bless you prison, bless you for being in my life. For there, lying upon the rotting prison straw, I came to realize that the object of life is not prosperity as we are made to believe, but the maturity of the human soul.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Lying, Believe, Maturity

One drop of truth can outweigh an ocean of lies

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Lying, Ocean

Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Peace, War, Lying
Nobel lecture as quoted in "Solzhenitsyn: A Documentary Record" edited by Leopold Labedz, 1974.

In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Country, Lying, Pillars
1974 interview, printed in appendix to (The Oak and the Calf, 1975)

Violence does not and cannot flourish by itself; it is inevitably intertwined with lying.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Lying, Doe, Violence

Let us not forget that violence does not live alone and is not capable of living alone: it is necessarily interwoven with falsehood. Between them lies the most intimate, the deepest of natural bonds. Violence finds its only refuge in falsehood, falsehood its only support in violence. Any man who has once acclaimed violence as his method must inexorably choose falsehood as his principle.

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

The simple act of an ordinary courageous man is not to take part, not to support lies! Let that come into the world and even reign over it, but not through me. Writers and artists can do more: they can vanquish lies! ... Lies can stand up against much in the world, but not against art.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Art, Lying, Simple

The meaning of earthly existence lies not, as we have grown used to thinking, in prospering, but in the development of the soul...

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Spiritual, Lying, Thinking
"The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956" by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, (Part IV), 1973.

Any man who has once acclaimed violence as his method must inexorably choose falsehood as his principle.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Peace, War, Lying
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. 1970.

In our age, when technology is gaining control over life, when material well-being is considered the most important goal, when the influence of religion has been weakened everywhere in the world, a special responsibility lies upon the writer.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Lying, Responsibility, Writing

It is within the power of writers and artists to do much more: to defeat the lie!

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Lying, Artist, Defeat
"JFK, Marilyn Monroe and, uh, Sarah Palin — The French Recollection" by Lisa Nesselson, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 6, 2008.

Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Peace, War, Lying
Nobel lecture as quoted in "Solzhenitsyn: A Documentary Record" edited by Leopold Labedz, 1974.

When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Truth, Honesty, Lying

The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Lying, Responsibility, Humanity

The perception of the West as mostly a "knight of democracy" has been replaced with the disappointed belief that pragmatism, often cynical and selfish, lies at the core of Western policies. For many Russians it was a grave disillusion, a crushing of ideals.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Crush, Selfish, Lying
Source: www.spiegel.de

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