Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Evil Quotations

One should not ascribe the evil deeds of individual leaders or political regimes to an innate fault of the Russian people and their country.

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.

Good or evil-you cannot build your life apart from this distinction.

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

Evil people always support each other; that is their chief strength.

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

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.

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.