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.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNIf one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
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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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It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
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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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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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It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.
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Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.
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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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Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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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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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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The name of ‘reform’ simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage.
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There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.
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Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.
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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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