For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNFor us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion.
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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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How can you expect a man who’s warm to understand one who’s cold?
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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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The name of ‘reform’ simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage.
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Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.
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Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it prolongs one’s well-being.
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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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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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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
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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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Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience… from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.
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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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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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