A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNViolence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.
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Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which are so dear to you – you do not even suspect that the day has already dawned outside.
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Our government declared that it is conducting some kind of great reforms. In reality, no real reforms were begun and no one at any point has declared a coherent programme.
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Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.
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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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Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
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The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.
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For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion.
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Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul.
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Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it prolongs one’s well-being.
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There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.
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The next war… may well bury Western civilization forever.
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It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
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Of course God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion that exists on earth represents some face, some side of God.
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Religion always remains higher than everyday life. In order to make the elevation towards religion easier for people, religion must be able to alter its forms in relation to the consciousness of modern man.
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How can you expect a man who’s warm to understand one who’s cold?
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If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
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The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
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You only have power over people so long as you don’t take everything away from them. But when you’ve robbed a man of everything, he’s no longer in your power – he’s free again.
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Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.
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I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.
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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
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The name of ‘reform’ simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage.
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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
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The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed by its rubble.
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The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.
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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
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