Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNThe salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.
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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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Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.
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The next war… may well bury Western civilization forever.
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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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We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.
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Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
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The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.
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It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.
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The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
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Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice.
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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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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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Today when we say the West we are already referring to the West and to Russia. We could use the word ‘modernity’ if we exclude Africa, and the Islamic world, and partially China.
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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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