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.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNThe name of ‘reform’ simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage.
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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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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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Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.
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The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
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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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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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Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.
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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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It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
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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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If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
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How can you expect a man who’s warm to understand one who’s cold?
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I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever.
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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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