Quote by Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.

In our country the lie has become not just a moral category

Summary

This quote suggests that in the country being referred to, lying is not just seen as a moral wrongdoing, but it has become ingrained in the functioning of the State. It implies that dishonesty and deceitfulness are not only tolerated but even perpetuated by those in power. This observation highlights the deep-rooted and systemic nature of falsehoods within the government, indicating a lack of transparency, trustworthiness, and ethical standards in the State's operations.

Topics

Deception/lying

By Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

There is a difference between conceit and confidence. Concei

There is a difference between conceit and confidence. Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done.

Confidence

I don't believe in firing professors. They have academic fre

I don't believe in firing professors. They have academic freedom.

Alan Dershowitz

Freedom

I think that we had a different view of what the 21st centur

I think that we had a different view of what the 21st century could be like, with much more of a sense, from our perspective, of trying to have an interdependent world: looking at solving regional conflicts, having strength in alliances, operating within some kind of a sense that we were part of the international community and not outside of it.

Madeleine Albright

Strength

The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you a

The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right.

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Action(s)

For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle (hom

For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle (home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics) he feels himself master of his fate, but against major events he is as helpless as against the elements. So far from endeavouring to influence the future, he simply lies down and lets things happen to him.

You can never have real success till you meet the real perso

You can never have real success till you meet the real person -- YOU.

Success & Failure

Life is the art of being well deceived and in order that the

Life is the art of being well deceived and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.

William Hazlitt

Art

From computers to information technology to airplanes, it ha

From computers to information technology to airplanes, it has been America's unique blend of republican government and free-market capitalism that has allowed us to surpass all other nations in history.

George Nethercutt

Computers

To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character o

To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.

Character

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.

Absence

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting dif

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

Success & Failure