Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it prolongs one’s well-being.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNJustice 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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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
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The next war… may well bury Western civilization forever.
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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
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For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion.
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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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We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.
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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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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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Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation’s heart, the excision of its memory.
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A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
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There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.
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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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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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Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.
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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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