We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNThe name of ‘reform’ simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage.
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The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.
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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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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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Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
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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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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 name of ‘reform’ simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage.
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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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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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Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.
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Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.
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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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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
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The next war… may well bury Western civilization forever.
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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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