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.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNNot everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
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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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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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The next war… may well bury Western civilization forever.
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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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It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
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Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.
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There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.
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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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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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Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul.
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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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The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.
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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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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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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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