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.
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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It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.
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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 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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The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.
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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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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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Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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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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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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The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.
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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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If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
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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.
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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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We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.
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