When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
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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Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.
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If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
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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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For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.
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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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Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.
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The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.
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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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The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
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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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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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It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
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We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.
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It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under God’s heaven.
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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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