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.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNThe battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every 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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Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.
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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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There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.
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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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The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.
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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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The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
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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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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
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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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The next war… may well bury Western civilization forever.
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You only have power over people so long as you don’t take everything away from them. But when you’ve robbed a man of everything, he’s no longer in your power – he’s free again.
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In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.
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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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