Quotes from Nobel lecture — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
1918–2008 Russia
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I believe that world literature has it in its power to help mankind, in these its troubled hours, to see itself as it really is, notwithstanding the indoctrinations of prejudiced people and parties.
Nobel lecture (1970)
Archeologists have not discovered stages of human existence so early that they were without art.
Nobel lecture (1970)
Our Twentieth Century has proved to be more cruel than preceding centuries, and the first fifty years have not erased all its horrors.
Nobel lecture (1970)
Violence, less and less embarrassed by the limits imposed by centuries of lawfulness, is brazenly and victoriously striding across the whole world, unconcerned that its infertility has been demonstrated and proved many times in history.
Nobel lecture (1970)
Woe to that nation whose literature is disturbed by the intervention of power. Because that is not just a violation against "freedom of print", it is the closing down of the heart of the nation, a slashing to pieces of its memory.
Nobel lecture (1970)
Nations are the wealth of mankind, its collective personalities; the very least of them wears its own special colours and bears within itself a special facet of divine intention.
Nobel lecture (1970)
From time immemorial man has been made in such a way that his vision of the world, so long as it has not been instilled under hypnosis, his motivations and scale of values, his actions and intentions are determined by his personal and group experience of life.
Nobel lecture (1970)