A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNWhen truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
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The next war… may well bury Western civilization forever.
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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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We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.
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If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
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The name of ‘reform’ simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage.
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Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
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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 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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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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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
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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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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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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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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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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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