Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes About Propaganda

• The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. "One word of truth outweighs the world.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Verdad, honestidad, mentira

• En nuestro país, la mentira se ha convertido no sólo en una categoría moral, sino en un pilar del Estado.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Country, Lying, Pillars

  1974 interview, printed in appendix to (The Oak and the Calf, 1975)

• Communist propaganda would sometimes include statements such as "we include almost all the commandments of the Gospel in our ideology". The difference is that the Gospel asks all this to be achieved through love, through self-limitation, but socialism only uses coercion. This is one point.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Self, Differences, Use

  Source: www.orthodoxytoday.org

• Who has the skill to make a narrow, obstinate human being aware of others' far-off grief and joy, to make him understand dimensions and delusions he himself has never lived through? Propaganda, coercion, and scientific proofs are powerless. But happily, in our world there is a way. It is art, and it is literature.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Art, Grief, Our World

• When I returned to Russia in 1994, the Western world and its states were practically being worshipped. Admittedly, this was caused not so much by real knowledge or a conscious choice, but by the natural disgust with the Bolshevik regime and its anti-Western propaganda.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Real, Russia, Choices

  Fuente: www.spiegel.de

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