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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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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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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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.
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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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We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.
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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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There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.
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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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It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.
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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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In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.
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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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Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.
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Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience… from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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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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