Solovetsky Quotes & Sayings

In the twenties the religious education of
children was classified as a political crime under Article 58-10 of the Code - in other words, counterrevolutionary propaganda! True, one was still permitted to renounce one's religion at one's trial: it didn't often happen but it nonetheless did happen that the father would renounce his religion and remain at home to raise the children while the mother went to the Solovetsky Islands. (Throughout all those years women manifested great firmness in their faith.) All persons convicted of religious activity received tenners, the longest term then given. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Lost, lost! one moment knelled the woe of years. — Robert Browning

I can tell a good cowboy by the way he approaches a cow. — Henry Green

You are not here in the world for yourself. You have been sent here for others. The world is waiting for you! — Catherine Booth

The martyrs to vice far exceed the martyrs to virtue, both in endurance and in number. — Charles Caleb Colton

If any one should wish to get the kingdom for himself, and to effect this by what he does, I see that he will not succeed. — Lao-Tzu

I'm not questioning Dick Cheney's motives. There's a chance for a conflict of interest. At one point in time, he was opposed to going into Baghdad. Then he was out of office and involved in the defense industry, and then he became for going into Baghdad. — Rand Paul