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.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNHastiness 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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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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How can you expect a man who’s warm to understand one who’s cold?
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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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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
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For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion.
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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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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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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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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
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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 state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
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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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We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.
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