Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn on communist
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn44 quotes“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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Aleksandr SolzhenitsynAleksandr Solzhenitsyn 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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Aleksandr SolzhenitsynAleksandr Solzhenitsyn A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
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Aleksandr SolzhenitsynAleksandr Solzhenitsyn Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynAleksandr Solzhenitsyn Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynAleksandr Solzhenitsyn If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynAleksandr Solzhenitsyn Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynAleksandr Solzhenitsyn First would be the literary side, then the spiritual and philosophical. The political side is required principally because of the necessity of the current Russian position.
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