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.
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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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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There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.
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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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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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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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The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.
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Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
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The next war… may well bury Western civilization forever.
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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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Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.
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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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A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
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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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If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
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