For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNFor a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.
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The next war… may well bury Western civilization forever.
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We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.
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For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.
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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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It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
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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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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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Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul.
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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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How can you expect a man who’s warm to understand one who’s cold?
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A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
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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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The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.
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There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.
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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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