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.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNA state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
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The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed by its rubble.
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If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
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The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
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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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The next war… may well bury Western civilization forever.
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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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Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.
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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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In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.
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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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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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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
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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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