For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion.
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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We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.
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The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
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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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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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Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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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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A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
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The next war… may well bury Western civilization forever.
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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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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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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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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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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
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It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
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There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.
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