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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If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
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Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul.
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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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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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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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Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which are so dear to you – you do not even suspect that the day has already dawned outside.
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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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The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
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We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.
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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
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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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Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
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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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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
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