There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNBlow 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.
More Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes
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It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes… we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions – especially selfish ones.
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The next war… may well bury Western civilization forever.
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If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
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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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Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul.
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Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.
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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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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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The name of ‘reform’ simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage.
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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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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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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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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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The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.
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