Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.
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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It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
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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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The next war… may well bury Western civilization forever.
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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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There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.
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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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The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.
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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.
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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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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
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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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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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The name of ‘reform’ simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage.
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The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed by its rubble.
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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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