It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNThere are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.
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It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes… we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions – especially selfish ones.
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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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The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
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A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
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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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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.
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It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
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If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
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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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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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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
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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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How can you expect a man who’s warm to understand one who’s cold?
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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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