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.
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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Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.
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The next war… may well bury Western civilization forever.
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The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.
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If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
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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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We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.
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Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which are so dear to you – you do not even suspect that the day has already dawned outside.
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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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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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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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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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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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Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
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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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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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