It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNViolence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.
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There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.
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I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever.
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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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The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
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Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation’s heart, the excision of its memory.
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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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Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying 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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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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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 salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.
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A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
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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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