Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNIt is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
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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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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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How can you expect a man who’s warm to understand one who’s cold?
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Today when we say the West we are already referring to the West and to Russia. We could use the word ‘modernity’ if we exclude Africa, and the Islamic world, and partially China.
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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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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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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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Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.
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The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.
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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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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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The name of ‘reform’ simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage.
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A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
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