Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNThe 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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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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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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Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.
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It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes… we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions – especially selfish ones.
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Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
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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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How can you expect a man who’s warm to understand one who’s cold?
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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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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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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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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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The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.
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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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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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The next war… may well bury Western civilization forever.
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