The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.
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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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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How can you expect a man who’s warm to understand one who’s cold?
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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
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Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
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It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
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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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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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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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A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
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Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which are so dear to you – you do not even suspect that the day has already dawned outside.
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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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Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.
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