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.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNLiterature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience… from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice.
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How can you expect a man who’s warm to understand one who’s cold?
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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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Our government declared that it is conducting some kind of great reforms. In reality, no real reforms were begun and no one at any point has declared a coherent programme.
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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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A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
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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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It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
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Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.
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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
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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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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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Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.
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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
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