It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.
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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If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
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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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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
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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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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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In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.
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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
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A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
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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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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
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Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.
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How can you expect a man who’s warm to understand one who’s cold?
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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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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 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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