Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNA man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
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If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
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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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For 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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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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The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.
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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
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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 next war… may well bury Western civilization forever.
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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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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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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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In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.
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It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
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How can you expect a man who’s warm to understand one who’s cold?
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