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.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNThe battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
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The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
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It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes… we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions – especially selfish ones.
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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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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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Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.
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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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Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.
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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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Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience… from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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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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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
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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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It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
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We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.
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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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