When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNReligion 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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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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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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Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.
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It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
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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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Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
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The name of ‘reform’ simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage.
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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 battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
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The next war… may well bury Western civilization forever.
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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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A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
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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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Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience… from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
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