It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNIf one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
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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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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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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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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
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For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion.
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The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.
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It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
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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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In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.
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First would be the literary side, then the spiritual and philosophical. The political side is required principally because of the necessity of the current Russian position.
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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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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
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We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.
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Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice.
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