Frases de Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (140 citas, página 4)

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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.”

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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

“Untouched by the breath of God, unrestricted by human conscience, both capitalism and socialism are repulsive.”

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

In his interview with Joseph Pearce. " An Interview with Alexander Solzhenitsyn http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/arts/al0172.html." St. Austin Review 2 no. 2 (February, 2003).
Interview with Joseph Pearce, Sr. (2003)

“The disappearance of nations would impoverish us no less than if all peoples were made alike, with one character, one face. Nations are the wealth of mankind, they are its generalized personalities: the smallest of them has its own particular colors, and embodies a particular facet of God's design.”

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Harvard University address (1978)

“If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?”

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn libro The Gulag Archipelago

The Gulag Archipelago (1973).

“I am of course confident that I will fulfil my tasks as a writer in all circumstances — from my grave even more successfully and more irrefutably than in my lifetime. No one can bar the road to truth, and to advance its cause I am prepared to accept even death. But may it be that repeated lessons will finally teach us not to stop the writer’s pen during his lifetime? At no time has this ennobled our history.”

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Open letter to the Fourth Soviet Writers’ Congress (16 May 1967); as translated in Solzhenitsyn: A Documentary Record (1970) edited by Leopold Labedz (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.”

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Nobel lecture (1970)

“A work of art bears within itself its own verification: conceptions which are devised or stretched do not stand being portrayed in images, they all come crashing down, appear sickly and pale, convince no one. But those works of art which have scooped up the truth and presented it to us as a living force — they take hold of us, compel us, and nobody ever, not even in ages to come, will appear to refute them.”

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Nobel lecture (1970)

“Call no day happy 'til it is done; call no man happy til he is dead.”

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn libro The Oak and the Calf

Solzhenitsyn here seems to be paraphrasing Sophocles who expresses similar ideas in Oedipus Rex. This is also a direct reference to Plutarch's line, "call no man fortunate until he is dead," from his "Parallel Lives".
The Oak and the Calf (1975)

“A man should build a house with his own hands before he calls himself an engineer.”

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn libro One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962)

“A man with two trades to his credit can easily learn another ten.”

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn libro One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962)

“Without any censorship, in the West fashionable trends of thought and ideas are carefully separated from those which are not fashionable; nothing is forbidden, but what is not fashionable will hardly ever find its way into periodicals or books or be heard in colleges. Legally your researchers are free, but they are conditioned by the fashion of the day. There is no open violence such as in the East; however, a selection dictated by fashion and the need to match mass standards frequently prevent independent-minded people from giving their contribution to public life. There is a dangerous tendency to form a herd, shutting off successful development.”

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Harvard University address (1978)

“Ivanov came to quite the same conclusion, though life supplied him with quite different material to think about. He puts it like this: many lives have a mystical sense, but not everyone reads it right; more often than not it is given to us in cryptic form, and when we fail to decipher it we despair because our lives seem meaningless… the secret of a great life is often a man’s success in deciphering the mysterious symbols vouchsafed to him, understanding them, and so learning to walk in the true path.”

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn libro The Oak and the Calf

The Oak and the Calf (1975)

“There is a word very commonly used these days: "anti-communism." It's a very stupid word, badly put together. It makes it appear as though communism were something original, something basic, something fundamental. Therefore, it is taken as the point of departure, and anti-communism is defined in relation to communism. Here is why I say that this word was poorly selected, that it was put together by people who do not understand etymology: the primary, the eternal concept is humanity. And communism is anti-humanity. Whoever says "anti-communism" is saying, in effect, anti-anti-humanity. A poor construction. So we should say: that which is against communism is for humanity. Not to accept, to reject this inhuman Communist ideology is simply to be a human being. It isn't being a member of a party.”

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Speech in Washington D.C., June 30, 1975; Solzhenitsyn: The Voice of Freedom http://www.archive.org/details/SolzhenitsynTheVoiceOfFreedom, p. 30.

“Socialism of any type leads to a total destruction of the human spirit and to a leveling of mankind into death.”

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Harvard University address (1978)

“I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less … than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever.”

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn libro The Oak and the Calf

The Oak and the Calf (1975)

“However, the most cruel mistake occurred with the failure to understand the Vietnam war. Some people sincerely wanted all wars to stop just as soon as possible; others believed that there should be room for national, or communist, self-determination in Vietnam, or in Cambodia, as we see today with particular clarity. But members of the U. S. anti-war movement wound up being involved in the betrayal of Far Eastern nations, in a genocide and in the suffering today imposed on 30 million people there. Do those convinced pacifists hear the moans coming from there? Do they understand their responsibility today? Or do they prefer not to hear?”

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Harvard University address (1978)

“Proverbs about truth are well-loved in Russian. They give steady and sometimes striking expression to the not inconsiderable harsh national experience: ONE WORD OF TRUTH SHALL OUTWEIGH THE WHOLE WORLD.
And it is here, on an imaginary fantasy, a breach of the principle of the conservation of mass and energy, that I base both my own activity and my appeal to the writers of the whole world.”

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Nobel lecture (1970)

“One artist sees himself as the creator of an independent spiritual world; he hoists onto his shoulders the task of creating this world, of peopling it and of bearing the all-embracing responsibility for it; but he crumples beneath it, for a mortal genius is not capable of bearing such a burden. Just as man in general, having declared himself the centre of existence, has not succeeded in creating a balanced spiritual system. And if misfortune overtakes him, he casts the blame upon the age-long disharmony of the world, upon the complexity of today's ruptured soul, or upon the stupidity of the public.
Another artist, recognizing a higher power above, gladly works as a humble apprentice beneath God's heaven; then, however, his responsbility for everything that is written or drawn, for the souls which perceive his work, is more exacting than ever. But, in return, it is not he who has created this world, not he who directs it, there is no doubt as to its foundations; the artist has merely to be more keenly aware than others of the harmony of the world, of the beauty and ugliness of the human contribution to it, and to communicate this acutely to his fellow-men. And in misfortune, and even at the depths of existence — in destitution, in prison, in sickness — his sense of stable harmony never deserts him.
But all the irrationality of art, its dazzling turns, its unpredictable discoveries, its shattering influence on human beings — they are too full of magic to be exhausted by this artist's vision of the world, by his artistic conception or by the work of his unworthy fingers.”

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Nobel lecture (1970)

“If one looks far into the future, one can foresee in the 21st century such a time when the U.S. together with Europe will be in dire need of Russia as an ally.”

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Interview With Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn on Ukraine (May 1994)

“If one recalls the tactless declaration of President Bush about supporting Ukrainian sovereignty even before the referendum on that matter, one must conclude that all this stems from a common aim: to use all means possible, no matter what the consequences, to weaken Russia.”

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Interview With Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn on Ukraine (May 1994)

“Why does the (U.S.) State Department decide who should get Sevastopol?”

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Interview With Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn on Ukraine (May 1994)

“Russia today is terribly sick... But even so, have a conscience and don’t demand that–just to please America–Russia throw away the last vestiges of her concern for her security and her unprecedented collapse. After all, this concern in no way threatens the United States.”

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Interview With Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn on Ukraine (May 1994)

“Imagine that one not very fine day two or three of your states in the Southwest, in the space of 24 hours, declare themselves independent of the U.S... declare themselves a fully sovereign nation, decreeing that Spanish will be the only language. All English-speaking residents, even if their ancestors have lived there for 200 years, have to take a test in the Spanish language within one or two years and swear allegiance... Otherwise they will not receive citizenship and be deprived of... (their) rights. Today Russia faces precisely this scenario.”

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Interview With Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn on Ukraine (May 1994)

“Imagine that one not very fine day two or three of your states in the Southwest, in the space of 24 hours, declare themselves independent of the U.S.... declare themselves a fully sovereign nation, decreeing that Spanish will be the only language. All English-speaking residents, even if their ancestors have lived there for 200 years, have to take a test in the Spanish language within one or two years and swear allegiance to the new nation. Otherwise they will not receive citizenship and be deprived of civic, property and employment rights. What would be the reaction of the United States? I have no doubt that it would be immediate military intervention. Today Russia faces precisely this scenario.”

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Interview With Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn on the New Russia and Ukraine (May 1994)

“War is the price we pay for living in a state. Before you can abolish war you will have to abolish all states. But that is unthinkable until the propensity to violence and evil is rooted out of human beings.”

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn The Red Wheel

"Father Severyan", in November 1916: The Red Wheel: Knot II (1984; translation 1999).
Contexto: At no time has the world been without war. Not in seven or ten or twenty thousand years. Neither the wisest of leaders, nor the noblest of kings, nor yet the Church — none of them has been able to stop it. And don't succumb to the facile belief that wars will be stopped by hotheaded socialists. Or that rational and just wars can be sorted out from the rest. There will always be thousands of thousands to whom even such a war will be senseless and unjustified. Quite simply, no state can live without war, that is one of the state's essential functions. … War is the price we pay for living in a state. Before you can abolish war you will have to abolish all states. But that is unthinkable until the propensity to violence and evil is rooted out of human beings. The state was created to protect us from evil. In ordinary life thousands of bad impulses, from a thousand foci of evil, move chaotically, randomly, against the vulnerable. The state is called upon to check these impulses — but it generates others of its own, still more powerful, and this time one-directional. At times it throws them all in a single direction — and that is war.

“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.”

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Nobel lecture (1970)
Contexto: 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. World literature has it in its power to convey condensed experience from one land to another so that we might cease to be split and dazzled, that the different scales of values might be made to agree, and one nation learn correctly and concisely the true history of another with such strength of recognition and painful awareness as it had itself experienced the same, and thus might it be spared from repeating the same cruel mistakes.