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.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNThere are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.
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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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Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience… from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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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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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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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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The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.
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A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
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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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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
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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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In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.
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The next war… may well bury Western civilization forever.
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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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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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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
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