“The most terrifying force of death, comes from the hands of men who wanted to be left alone. They try, so very hard, to mind their own business and provide for themselves and those they love. They resist every impulse to fight back, knowing the forced and permanent change of life that will come from it. They know, that the moment they fight back, their lives as they have lived them, are over.
The moment the men who wanted to be left alone are forced to fight back, it is a form of suicide. They are literally killing off who they used to be. Which is why, when forced to take up violence, these men who wanted to be left alone, fight with unholy vengeance against those who murdered their former lives. They fight with raw hate, and a drive that cannot be fathomed by those who are merely play-acting at politics and terror. TRUE TERROR will arrive at these people’s door, and they will cry, scream and beg for mercy… but it will fall upon the deaf ears of the men who just wanted to be left alone.”
I just wanted to play video games.
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn on Bolsheviks in 1917 revolution: "You must understand, the leading Bolsheviks who took over Russia were not Russians. They hated Russians. They hated Christians. Driven by ethnic hatred they tortured and slaughtered millions of Russians without a shred of human remorse. It cannot be overstated. Bolshevism committed the greatest human slaughter of all time. The fact that most of the world is ignorant and uncaring about this enormous crime is proof that the global media is in the hands of the perpetrators."
It Definitely WASN'T the Jews.
We really did.
Honest to God.
My politics in a nutshell.
They took my circuses, and made my bread unaffordable.
"they made the bread expensive, and the circus gay"
AI slop said Stephen King under his Richard Bachman alias. But it can certainly be wrong, especially if the book was quoting Solzhenitsyn. I'm sure as hell not buying a Stephen King book to find out.
I find these internet quotes before that are really from that person, but end up having utterly horrible translations(assuming he was writing in Russian) that sometimes entirely invert the meanings.
Yeah, this is not his style. Not nearly verbose enough
Yeah, sounds like bullshit, never heard that one before.
Best quote ever:
And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward. Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn , The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
I prefer:
“The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. One word of truth outweighs the world.” ― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. -Nietzsche
I just like to break that one out when people are quoting fatalistic shit.
Did he think of this while he was in the gulag in the USSR? a country famed for it's anti government violence?