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.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNI 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 state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
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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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Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.
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Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
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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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Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.
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It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
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Today when we say the West we are already referring to the West and to Russia. We could use the word ‘modernity’ if we exclude Africa, and the Islamic world, and partially China.
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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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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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How can you expect a man who’s warm to understand one who’s cold?
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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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