Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it prolongs one’s well-being.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNHuman 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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The next war… may well bury Western civilization forever.
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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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Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
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For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. 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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It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.
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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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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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It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under God’s heaven.
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Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.
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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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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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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 a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.
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