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.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNA state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
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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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It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.
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Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
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We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.
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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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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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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
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Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
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A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
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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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There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.
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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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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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