The next war… may well bury Western civilization forever.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNWhen truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
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How can you expect a man who’s warm to understand one who’s cold?
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In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.
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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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I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever.
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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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Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul.
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Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.
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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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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
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If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
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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 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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Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.
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