The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNFor us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, 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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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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The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.
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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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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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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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Today when we say the West we are already referring to the West and to Russia. We could use the word ‘modernity’ if we exclude Africa, and the Islamic world, and partially China.
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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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How can you expect a man who’s warm to understand one who’s cold?
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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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It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.
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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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A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
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Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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