The name of ‘reform’ simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNHuman 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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For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion.
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Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice.
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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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For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion.
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It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
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We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.
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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
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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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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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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
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Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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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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There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.
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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
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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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Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.
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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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A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
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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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It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.
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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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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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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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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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The next war… may well bury Western civilization forever.
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