I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.
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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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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Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.
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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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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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It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.
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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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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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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
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How can you expect a man who’s warm to understand one who’s cold?
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If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
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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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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
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A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
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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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In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.
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