In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNNot everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
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There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.
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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 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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Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.
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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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The next war… may well bury Western civilization forever.
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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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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
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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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Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
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Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation’s heart, the excision of its memory.
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It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
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Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.
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For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.
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The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
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