Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn Famous Quotes
It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
"A great writer is, so to speak, a second government in his country. And for that reason no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones."
"One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to."
"In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them."
A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
"If decade after decade the truth cannot be told, each person's mind begins to roam irretrievably. One's fellow countrymen become harder to understand than Martians."
You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again.
Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn Quotations
I stand by all the misstatements that I've made.
Dan Quayle
"Courage, her mother had once told her, was not simply the fact that you weren't scared of anything.. it was being scared, and doing whatever it was anyway. Courage was dealing with your fears, and not letting them rule you."
Missy Good
"It is not enough to do your best you must know what to do, and *then* do your best."
W Edwards Deming
"By asking for the impossible, obtain the best possible."
Italian Proverb
"If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing."
Bertrand Russell
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead his eyes are closed."
Albert Einstein
"Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty."
George Washington
The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.
Harold Taylor
"It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do."
Jean Baptiste Poquelin Molire
Rich Folkers is throwing up in the bullpen.
Jerry Coleman