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.
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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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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Of course God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion that exists on earth represents some face, some side of God.
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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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Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
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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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The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
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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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We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.
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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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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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Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.
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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 sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.
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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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