The name of ‘reform’ simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage.
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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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
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It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
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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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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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Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice.
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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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There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.
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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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The next war… may well bury Western civilization forever.
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Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
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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 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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If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
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Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.
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