For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNYou 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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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
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Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.
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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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Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
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Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul.
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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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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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There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.
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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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Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience… from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.
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A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
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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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Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.
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