If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNHastiness 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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Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying 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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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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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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Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
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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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In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.
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The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.
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The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
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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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A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
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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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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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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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