Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNThe salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.
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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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A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
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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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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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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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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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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
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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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How can you expect a man who’s warm to understand one who’s cold?
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There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.
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It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
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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 sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.
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