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.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNA state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
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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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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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Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.
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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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Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.
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How can you expect a man who’s warm to understand one who’s cold?
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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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Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.
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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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In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.
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The name of ‘reform’ simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage.
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There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.
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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
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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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The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.
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