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.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNIt would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.
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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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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
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We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.
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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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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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Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience… from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
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Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.
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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
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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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The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.
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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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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
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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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Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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