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.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNFor 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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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
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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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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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It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.
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Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience… from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under God’s heaven.
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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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Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
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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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Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.
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The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.
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A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
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How can you expect a man who’s warm to understand one who’s cold?
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The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
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The next war… may well bury Western civilization forever.
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