In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNOf course God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion that exists on earth represents some face, some side of God.
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The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
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If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
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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.
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The next war… may well bury Western civilization forever.
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There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.
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How can you expect a man who’s warm to understand one who’s cold?
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It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
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Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.
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I 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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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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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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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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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
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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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