For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNEverything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
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A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
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Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.
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The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
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How can you expect a man who’s warm to understand one who’s cold?
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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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Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul.
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There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.
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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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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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Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
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The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.
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Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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Religion always remains higher than everyday life. In order to make the elevation towards religion easier for people, religion must be able to alter its forms in relation to the consciousness of modern man.
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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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It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
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