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.
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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Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.
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The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.
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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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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
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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 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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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 sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.
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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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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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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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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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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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It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
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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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