Frases de Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (140 citas, página 3)

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“Nos instruyen y preparan en la juventud para una profesión, para cumplir los deberes ciudadanos, para el servicio militar, nos enseñaban las reglas del aseo, a comportarnos bien y hasta a comprender lo bello (esto último no tanto). Pero la instrucción, la educación, la experiencia, no nos preparan en absoluto para la gran prueba de nuestra vida: para el arresto por nada y para el sumario sobre nada.”

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956

“Me detuvieron por culpa de mi ingenuidad. Yo sabía que en las cartas del frente se prohibía hablar de los secretos militares, pero creía que estaba permitido pensar.”

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“No tengo ninguna esperanza en Occidente, y ningún ruso debería tenerla… La excesiva comodidad y prosperidad han debilitado su voluntad y su razón.”

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Fuente: http://www.noticiasliterarias.com/cultura/letras/Cultura_letras%2007.htm

“«Sus progresistas llaman dictadura al régimen vigente en España. Hace diez días que yo viajo por España y he quedado asombrado. ¿Saben ustedes lo que es una dictadura? He aquí algunos ejemplos de lo que he visto. Los españoles son absolutamente libres para residir en cualquier parte y de trasladarse a cualquier parte de España. Nosotros, los soviéticos, no podemos hacerlo. Estamos amarrados a nuestro lugar de residencia por la propiska (registro policial). Las autoridades deciden si tengo derecho a marcharme de tal o cual población. También he podido comprobar que los españoles pueden salir libremente al extranjero. Sin duda saben ustedes que, debido a fuertes presiones ejercidas por la opinión mundial y por los Estados Unidos, se ha dejado salir de la Unión Soviética, con no pocas dificultades, a cierto número de judíos. Pero los judíos restantes y las personas de otras nacionalidades no pueden marchar al extranjero. En nuestro país estamos como encarcelados.
Paseando por Madrid y otras ciudades, he podido ver que se venden en los kioscos los principales periódicos extranjeros. ¡Me pareció increíble! Si en la Unión Soviética se vendiesen libremente periódicos extranjeros, se verían inmediatamente decenas y decenas de manos tendidas, luchando por procurárselos.
También he observado que en España uno puede utilizar libremente máquinas fotocopiadoras. Cualquier individuo puede fotocopiar cualquier documento depositando cinco pesetas en el aparato. Ningún ciudadano de la Unión Soviética podría hacer una cosa así. Cualquiera que emplee máquinas fotocopiadoras, salvo por necesidades de servicio y por orden superior, es acusado de actividades contrarrevolucionarias.
En su país —dentro de algunos límites, es cierto— se toleran las huelgas. En el nuestro, y en los sesenta años de existencia del socialismo, jamás se autorizó una sola huelga. Los que participaron en los movimientos huelguísticos de los primeros años de poder soviético fueron acribillados por ráfagas de ametralladoras, pese a que sólo reclamaban mejores condiciones de trabajo. Si nosotros gozásemos de la libertad que ustedes disfrutan aquí, nos quedaríamos boquiabiertos.
Hace poco han tenido ustedes una amnistía. La califican de “limitada.””

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Se ha rebajado la mitad de la pena a los combatientes políticos que habían luchado con las armas en la mano (se refiere a los terroristas). ¡Ojalá a nosotros nos hubiesen concedido, una sola vez en veinte años, una amnistía limitada como la suya! Entramos en la cárcel para morir en ella. Muy pocos hemos salido de ella para contarlo».
Declaraciones en Televisión Española durante su visita a España en 1976.
Fuente: http://hispanidad.info/solyenitsin1976.htm http://www.piomoa.es/?p=594,

“Era injusto ser pragmático hasta el extremo de juzgar a la gente por los resultados de sus acciones; las acciones humanas deben juzgarse por las intenciones”

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn libro Pabellón del cáncer

Cancer Ward

“La persona que no está interiormente preparada para la violencia es siempre más débil que el opresor.”

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Fuente:El Archipiélago Gulag, Tusquets Editores, Barcelona, 2002.
Citas de El Archipiélago Gulag

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Frases y Citas

“La Historia, en general, es una sucesión de violentas conquistas y derrocamientos. Y aquel que más habilidad demuestra en los derrocamientos y con más firmeza se encarama a la silla, goza de la augusta bendición de la justicia, y todos sus actos, tanto pasados como venideros, son legales y encomiables, mientras que los de su menos afortunado adversario son delictivos, punibles y merecen ser castigados con la muerte.”

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Pasado , Historia , De muerte , De justicia

“Cuando la vida se teje con estambres legalistas surge una atmósfera de mediocridad moral que paraliza los más nobles impulsos humanos.”

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Fragmento de A World Split Apart, discurso que pronunció en la Universidad de Harvard el 8 de junio de 1978.
Fuente: http://www.nuevoexcelsior.com.mx/index.php?m=nota&id_nota=696174

De fe , De vida

“El escritor ha de estar dispuesto a soportar la injusticia, y en eso está el riesgo de su misión.”

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Fuente: http://www.noticiasliterarias.com/cultura/letras/Cultura_letras%2007.htm

De justicia

“Produce náuseas por su extremado naturalismo y la tendencia a inculcar todos los miedos posibles e imaginables; sin embargo, su idea fundamental no es clínica sino social, y esto es precisamente lo que no se puede aceptar.”

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Fuente: http://www.noticiasliterarias.com/cultura/letras/Cultura_letras%2007.htm

De miedo , Idea

“Y esas células del corazón que la naturaleza ha creado en nosotros para la alegría, al no usarse, se atrofian. Y esos minúsculos recintos del pecho en los que anida la fe se agostan porque durante años están vacíos”

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn libro Pabellón del cáncer

Cancer Ward

Corazón , Alegría , De fe , Naturaleza

“Una de las situaciones más penosas del género humano es que, a la mitad de su vida, las personas no puedan gozar de una tregua lenificante, cambiando bruscamente de ocupación”

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn libro Pabellón del cáncer

Cancer Ward

De vida

“¿Sabe acaso, Zóyenka, en qué rincón de la Tierra va a ser feliz y en cuál desgraciada? ¿Quién puede decir que lo sabe?”

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn libro Pabellón del cáncer

Cancer Ward

“Según las condiciones del lugar, el box puede sustituirse por el foso de la división, como era costumbre en los campos militares de Gorojovets durante la gran guerra patria. A esta fosa, de tres metros de profundidad por unos dos de diámetro, se arrojaba al preso, y lo tenían ahí metido varios días, a cielo abierto, a veces bajo la lluvia. Era a la vez celda y retrete. Y le bajaban con una cuerda trescientos gramos de pan, y agua. Imagínese en esa situación, además recién arrestado, cuando eres un manojo de nervios.”

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Fuente:El Archipiélago Gulag, Tusquets Editores, Barcelona, 2002.
Citas de El Archipiélago Gulag

Agua , De guerra

“Los calabozos tenían sus variantes: los había con humedad y con agua. En la cárcel de Chernovitsi, después de la guerra, tuvieron a Masha G. dos horas descalza con agua helada hasta el tobillo. ¡Confiesa! (Tenía dieciocho años. ¡Cómo lamentaría el mal que sufrieron sus pies, y cuánto debía vivir con ellos aún!).”

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Fuente:El Archipiélago Gulag, Tusquets Editores, Barcelona, 2002.
Citas de El Archipiélago Gulag

Agua , Mal , De guerra

“Incluso en el peor momento de la epidemia de detenciones, cuando al salir a trabajar los hombres se despedían de sus familias cada día, pues no podían estar seguros de volver por la tarde, incluso entonces apenas se registraban fugas (y menos aún suicidios). Así tenía que ser: de la oveja mansa vive el lobo.”

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Fuente:El Archipiélago Gulag, Tusquets Editores, Barcelona, 2002.
Citas de El Archipiélago Gulag

Lobo , De familia , Suicidio , De hombres

“En el supermercado Gastronom te invitan a pasar al departamento de pedidos y te detienen allí mismo; te detiene un peregrino al que por caridad dejaste pasar la noche en casa; te detiene el fontanero que vino a tomar la lectura del contador; te detiene el ciclista que tropieza contigo en la calle; el revisor del tren, el taxista, el empleado de la Caja de Ahorros, el gerente del cine, cualquiera puede detenerte, y sólo te dejan ver su carnet rojo, que llevaban cuidadosamente escondido, cuando ya es demasiado tarde.”

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Citas de El Archipiélago Gulag
Fuente: El Archipiélago Gulag, Tusquets Editores, Barcelona, 2002.

Noche , Caja , Vino

“El procedimiento lumínico. Una intensa luz eléctrica las veinticuatro horas del día en la celda o en el box donde está encerrado el detenido, una bombilla de potencia desmedida para una pequeña estancia con paredes blancas (¡La electricidad que economizaban los colegiales y las amas de casa!). Se inflamaban los párpados y resultaba muy doloroso. Después, en el despacho del juez de instrucción, le enfocaban de nuevo lámparas domésticas.”

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Fuente:El Archipiélago Gulag, Tusquets Editores, Barcelona, 2002.
Citas de El Archipiélago Gulag

“Cuando no había suficientes boxes, lo hacían también de la siguiente manera. En el NKVD de Novocherkask, a Yelena Strutínskaya la mantuvieron seis días en un pasillo sentada en una banqueta de manera que no pudiera recostarse en ninguna parte, sin dormir, sin caer ni levantarse. ¡Durante seis días! Intenten ustedes permanecer sentados así tan sólo seis horas.”

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Fuente:El Archipiélago Gulag, Tusquets Editores, Barcelona, 2002.
Citas de El Archipiélago Gulag

Dormir

“Sin el toque del aliento de Dios, sin restricciones en la conciencia humana, tanto el capitalismo como el socialismo son repulsivos.”

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Original en inglés en su entrevista con Joseph Pearce en 2003: «Untouched by the breath of God, unrestricted by human conscience, both capitalism and socialism are repulsive».[Sin fuentes]

De Dios

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: Frases en inglés

“Beat a dog once and you only have to show him the whip.”

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn libro One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

Fuente: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962)

“A genius doesn't adjust his treatment of a theme to a tyrant's taste”

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn libro One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

Fuente: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962)

“There is no point asserting and reasserting what the heart cannot believe.”

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“… you are strong only as long as you don't deprive people of. For a person you've takenfrom us no longer in your power. He's free all over again.”

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn libro The First Circle

Fuente: The First Circle

“It is unthinkable in the twentieth century to fail to distinguish between what constitutes an abominable atrocity that must be prosecuted and what constitutes that "past" which "ought not to be stirred up.”

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Fuente: The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956

“Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice.”

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Letter to three students (October 1967) as translated in Solzhenitsyn: A Documentary Record (1970) edited by Leopold Labedz (1970) “The Struggle Intensifies".

“… it's only on a black day that you begin to have friends.”

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn libro The First Circle

Fuente: The First Circle

“Every man always has handy a dozen glib little reasons why he is right not to sacrifice himself.”

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Fuente: The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956

“Oh, how hard it is to part with power! This one has to understand.”

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Fuente: The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956

“Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which are so dear to you — you do not even suspect that the day has already dawned outside.”

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Letter to the Secretariat of the Soviet Writers’ Union (12 November 1969) as translated in Solzhenitsyn: A Documentary Record (1970) edited by Leopold Labedz (1970) “Expulsion".

“Work was like a stick. It had two ends. When you worked for the knowing you gave them quality; when you worked for a fool you simply gave him eyewash.”

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn libro One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

Fuente: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

“Yes, you live with your feet in the mud and there's no time to be thinking about how you got in or how you're going to get out.”

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn libro One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

Fuente: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

“As the two-thousand-year-old saying goes, you can have eyes and still not see. But a hard life improves vision.”

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn libro Pabellón del cáncer

Fuente: Cancer Ward

“Violence can only be concealed by a Lie, & the Lie can only be maintained by Violence…. Any man, who has once proclaimed Violence as his Method, is inevitably forced to take the Lie as his Principle”

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“If you live in a graveyard, you can't weep for everyone.”

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Fuente: The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Books III-IV

“We are all human, and our senses are quicker to prompt us than our reason. Every man gives off a scent, and that scent tells you how to act before your head does.”

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn libro The First Circle

Fuente: The First Circle

“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.”

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“I was in a state of witless shock, as though flames had suddenly enwrapped and paralyzed me so that for a moment I had no mind, no memory.”

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn libro The Oak and the Calf

The Oak and the Calf (1975)

“For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion.”

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BBC Radio broadcast, Russian service, as quoted in The Listener (15 February 1979).

“Harvard's motto is "Veritas." Many of you have already found out and others will find out in the course of their lives that truth eludes us if we do not concentrate with total attention on its pursuit. And even while it eludes us, the illusion still lingers of knowing it and leads to many misunderstandings. Also, truth is seldom pleasant; it is almost invariably bitter. There is some bitterness in my speech today, too. But I want to stress that it comes not from an adversary but from a friend.”

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Harvard University address (1978)

“It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes. It may even lie on the surface; but we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions — especially selfish ones.”

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"Peace and Violence" (1973).

“Literature that is not the breath of contemporary society, that dares not transmit the pains and fears of that society, that does not warn in time against threatening moral and social dangers — such literature does not deserve the name of literature; it is only a façade. Such literature loses the confidence of its own people, and its published works are used as wastepaper instead of being read.”

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Open letter to the Fourth Soviet Writers’ Congress (16 May 1967) “The Struggle Intensifies,” Solzhenitsyn: A Documentary Record, ed. Leopold Labedz (1970).

“We shall be told: what can literature possibly do against the ruthless onslaught of open violence? But 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.”

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Variant translation: Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence. Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.
As quoted in Solzhenitsyn: A Documentary Record (1974) edited by Leopold Labedz
Nobel lecture (1970)
Contexto: We shall be told: what can literature possibly do against the ruthless onslaught of open violence? But 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. At its birth violence acts openly and even with pride. But no sooner does it become strong, firmly established, than it senses the rarefaction of the air around it and it cannot continue to exist without descending into a fog of lies, clothing them in sweet talk. It does not always, not necessarily, openly throttle the throat, more often it demands from its subjects only an oath of allegiance to falsehood, only complicity in falsehood.

“What then is the place and role of the writer in this cruel, dynamic, split world on the brink of its ten destructions? After all we have nothing to do with letting off rockets, we do not even push the lowliest of hand-carts, we are quite scorned by those who respect only material power. Is it not natural for us too to step back, to lose faith in the steadfastness of goodness, in the indivisibility of truth, and to just impart to the world our bitter, detached observations: how mankind has become hopelessly corrupt, how men have degenerated, and how difficult it is for the few beautiful and refined souls to live amongst them?
But we have not even recourse to this flight. Anyone who has once taken up the WORD can never again evade it; a writer is not the detached judge of his compatriots and contemporaries, he is an accomplice to all the evil committed in his native land or by his countrymen.”

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Nobel lecture (1970)

“The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed by its rubble.”

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"How We Must Rebuild Russia" in Komsomolskaya Pravda (18 September 1990).

“Macbeth’s self-justifications were feeble – and his conscience devoured him. Yes, even Iago was a little lamb too. The imagination and the spiritual strength of Shakespeare’s evildoers stopped short at a dozen corpses. Because they had no ideology.”

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn libro The Gulag Archipelago

The Gulag Archipelago (1973).

“But the fight for our planet, physical and spiritual, a fight of cosmic proportions, is not a vague matter of the future; it has already started. The forces of Evil have begun their decisive offensive, you can feel their pressure, and yet your screens and publications are full of prescribed smiles and raised glasses. What is the joy about?”

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Harvard University address (1978)

“If humanism were right in declaring that man is born to be happy, he would not be born to die. Since his body is doomed to die, his task on earth evidently must be of a more spiritual nature. It cannot be unrestrained enjoyment of everyday life. It cannot be the search for the best ways to obtain material goods and then cheerfully get the most out of them. It has to be the fulfillment of a permanent, earnest duty so that one's life journey may become an experience of moral growth, so that one may leave life a better human being than one started it. It is imperative to review the table of widespread human values. Its present incorrectness is astounding. It is not possible that assessment of the President's performance be reduced to the question of how much money one makes or of unlimited availability of gasoline. Only voluntary, inspired self-restraint can raise man above the world stream of materialism.”

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Harvard University address (1978)

“A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today. The Western world has lost its civic courage, both as a whole and separately, in each country, in each government, in each political party, and, of course, in the United Nations. Such a decline in courage is particularly noticeable among the ruling and intellectual elites, causing an impression of a loss of courage by the entire society. There are many courageous individuals, but they have no determining influence on public life.
Political and intellectual functionaries exhibit this depression, passivity, and perplexity in their actions and in their statements, and even more so in their self-serving rationales as to how realistic, reasonable, and intellectually and even morally justified it is to base state policies on weakness and cowardice. And the decline in courage, at times attaining what could be termed a lack of manhood, is ironically emphasized by occasional outbursts and inflexibility on the part of those same functionaries when dealing with weak governments and with countries that lack support, or with doomed currents which clearly cannot offer resistance. But they get tongue-tied and paralyzed when they deal with powerful governments and threatening forces, with aggressors and international terrorists.
Should one point out that from ancient times decline in courage has been considered the beginning of the end?”

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Variant translation: A loss of courage may be the most striking feature which an outside observer notices in the West in our days...
Harvard University address (1978)