The name of ‘reform’ simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNLiterature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.
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The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
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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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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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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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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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If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
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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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Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.
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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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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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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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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
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You only have power over people so long as you don’t take everything away from them. But when you’ve robbed a man of everything, he’s no longer in your power – he’s free again.
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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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