Gulags Quotes

• The much greater crimes of the Soviet Gulags occurred over decades and cost millions of lives.

  Jean-Marie Le Pen

  Cost, Crime, Soviet

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• If I read this to you and did not tell you that it was an FBI agent describing what Americans had done to prisoners in their control, you would most certainly believe this must have been done by Nazis, Soviets in their gulags or some mad regime - Pol Pot or others - that had no concern for human beings.

  Dick Durbin

  Believe, Fbi Agents, Mad

  Speech on the Senate floor, www.washingtontimes.com. June 16, 2005.

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• Ojalá todo fuera tan sencillo. Si sólo hubiera personas malvadas en algún lugar cometiendo insidiosamente actos malvados, y sólo fuera necesario separarlas del resto de nosotros y destruirlas. Pero la línea que divide el bien y el mal atraviesa el corazón de todo ser humano. ¿Y quién está dispuesto a destruir un trozo de su propio corazón?

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Sabiduría, Paz, Diversión

  "El Archipiélago Gulag". Libro de Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, 1973.

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• From the Soviet gulag to the Nazi concentration camps and the killing fields of Cambodia, history teaches that granting the state legal authority to kill innocent individuals has dreadful consequences.

  Pete du Pont

  Nazi Concentration Camps, Fields, Killing

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• The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either - but right through every human heart - and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. And even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Party, Heart, Humility

  "El Archipiélago Gulag". Libro de Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, 1974.

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• It was only when I lay there on the rotting prison straw that I sensed within myself the first stirrings of good. Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not between states nor between social classes nor between political parties, but right through every human heart, through all human hearts. And that is why I turn back to the years of my imprisonment and say, sometimes to the astonishment of those about me, bless you, prison, for having been a part of my life.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Party, Heart, Years

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• La línea que divide el bien y el mal atraviesa el corazón de todo ser humano. ¿Y quién está dispuesto a destruir un trozo de su propio corazón?

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Inspiración, Corazón, Corte

  "El Archipiélago Gulag". Libro de Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, 1974.

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• We always pay dearly for chasing after what is cheap.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Pay, Chasing

  Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, Anne Applebaum (2007). "The Gulag Archipelago Volume 2: An Experiment in Literary Investigation", Harper Perennial Modern Classics.

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• Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either - but right through every human heart...

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Party, Heart, Class

  "The Gulag Archipelago" by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Part IV, 1973.

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• When I was in the gulag I would sometimes even write on stone walls. I used to write on scraps of paper, then I memorised the contents and destroyed the scraps.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Wall, Writing, Paper

  Fuente: www.independent.co.uk

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• Do not pursue what is illusory - property and position: all that is gained at the expense of your nerves decade after decade, and is confiscated in one fell night. Live with a steady superiority over life - don't be afraid of misfortune, and do not yearn after happiness; it is, after all, all the same: the bitter doesn't last forever, and the sweet never fills the cup to overflowing.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Inspirational, Sweet, Night

  "El Archipiélago Gulag". Libro de Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, 1974.

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• Left-wing zealots have often been prepared to ride roughshod over due process and basic considerations of fairness when they think they can get away with it. For them the ends always seems to justify the means. That is precisely how their predecessors came to create the gulag.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Medio, Pensamiento, Alas

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• Nobody who's ever been to Gulag is a pacifist.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Peace, War, Pacifist

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• Ahora el gobierno requisa los registros telefónicos de los ciudadanos y criba sus correos electrónicos. Tacha de traidores a denunciantes como Edward Snowden, a pesar de que han sacado a la luz la corrupción, la ilegalidad y un sinfín de prácticas antidemocráticas de los gobiernos establecidos. La policía puede tomar muestras de ADN de todas las personas detenidas por un delito, independientemente de que se demuestre su culpabilidad o no. Estados Unidos está encarcelando a personas en cifras récord, con más de 2,3 millones de reclusos, mientras que 6 millones de personas en un momento dado [están] bajo supervisión carcelaria, más de las que había en el Gulag de Stalin.

  Henry Giroux

  Government, Dna, Practice

  Fuente: www.truth-out.org

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• Dedico esto a todos aquellos que no vivieron para contarlo. Y que por favor me perdonen por no haberlo visto todo ni haberlo recordado todo, por no haberlo adivinado todo - de El Archipiélago Gulag

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Perdóname, Perdonar, Mayo

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• Después de leer The New Jim Crow, la impresionante obra de erudición de Michelle Alexander, uno llega a la terrible conclusión de que, para la gente de color, el sistema de justicia penal estadounidense se parece al gulag de la Unión Soviética: el segundo castigaba ideas, el primero castiga una condición.

  David Levering Lewis

  Lectura, Ideas, Color

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• It is people who are violent, rather than "religions"; and since we secularised our politics we have had two major world wars, the Holocaust, the Soviet Gulag, and the atomic attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki - none of which were inspired by religion. If we want to understand the dangers of our world, we can no longer accept the old received ideas.

  Karen Armstrong

  War, Ideas, Two

  "A conversation with Karen Armstrong". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• No society has gone the way of gulags or concentration camps by following the path of Spinoza and Einstein and Jefferson and Thomas Paine

  Christopher Hitchens

  Gone, Way, Path

  "Christopher Hitchens: Religion Poisons Everything". Interview with Jon Wiener, www.truthdig.com. June 7, 2007.

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• Posee sólo lo que puedas llevar siempre contigo: conoce idiomas, conoce países, conoce gente. Deja que tu memoria sea tu bolsa de viaje.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  País, Viajes, Recuerdos

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• Guantanamo has become the gulag of our time.

  Irene Khan

  Our Time, Guantanamo

  "Guantanamo the 'gulag of our time'". Irene Khan's speech at the news conference during the celebration of the publication of Amnesty's annual report, www.denverpost.com. May 25, 2005.

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• Remind me: who was the greater mass murderer, Stalin or Hitler? Well, Stalin is thought to have been responsible for about 50 million deaths, and Hitler for a mere 25 million. What Hitler did in his concentration camps was equalled if not exceeded in foulness by the Soviet gulags, forced starvation and pogroms. What makes the achievements of communist Russia so special and different, that you can simper around in a CCCP T-shirt, while anyone demented enough to wear anything commemorating the Third Reich would be speedily banged away under the 1986 Public Order Act?

  Boris Johnson

  War, Order, Russia

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• While public school history courses in the United States stress the horrors of the German Nazi murder of 6 million Jews and Josef Stalin's pogroms against racial minorities and political dissidents in the Soviet Union, the facts that the U.S. Army's solution to the 'Indian Problem' was the prototype for the Nazi 'Final Solution' to the 'Jewish Problem' and that the North American Indian Reservation was the model for the twentieth century gulag and concentration camp, are conveniently overlooked.

  Jonathan Ott

  Stress, School, Army

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• Deje que su memoria sea su bolsa de viaje.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Viajes, recuerdos, próxima aventura

  "Reflexiones sobre Alexander Solzhenitsyn", por Don Meyer, www.huffingtonpost.com. 18 de septiembre de 2012.

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• Piense en lo que han hecho los grandes gobiernos en este siglo: no una, sino dos guerras mundiales, el gulag, el holocausto, los bombardeos aéreos de centros de población civil, el Muro de Berlín, las explosiones nucleares, la oficina de correos. Un individuo malvado podría querer esto, pero no tendría el dinero ni las conexiones para conseguirlo. Una empresa malvada podría permitírselos, pero tiene que comercializar los productos. El reclutamiento de Vietnam sería difícil de vender incluso para los hombres de negocios más malvados. "¡Que te disparen! ¡Que te maten! ¡Consigue enfermedades de mujeres extranjeras que te desprecian en sus corazones!"

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Muro, Guerra, Corazón

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• Where did you learn your charm—the gulag?

  Nalini Singh

  Encanto

  Nalini Singh (2007). “Caressed By Ice”, p.35, Penguin

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